Designers Reportage
Wolfgang Herzig was an Austrian painter and sculptor known for his critical portrayal of social realities. In his figurative paintings he draws attention to human weaknesses in everyday life.
There is a sense of social criticism in Herzig's work, but he never turns his characters into caricatures. Over time, the artist came to a peculiar two-dimensional form of plastics.
Titina Maselli is an Italian pop-art artist and stage designer.
Born into a creative family, she has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and New York.
Maselli's works futuristically depict the modern dynamic life of big cities with their skyscrapers, nighttime traffic lights and neon signs. In Titina Maselli's cities athletes compete, cyclists race, boxers fight furiously - the artist was able to portray all this best in pop-art style.
Titina Maselli has also worked as a stage designer, creating sets and costumes for famous theatrical productions.
Carmen Oberst is a German artist, graphic designer and photographer.
She has lived in Hamburg since 1980 and works as an independent photographic artist, curator and teacher of design using photographic media.
Carmen Oberst originally worked as a graphic designer. Since 1997 she has been active in photography and experimental film, holding numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Back in the 1980s, she developed her own visual language based on analog black and white photography and photoalchemical experiments. And in 1996 she founded PHOTO.KUNST.RAUM, a center for fine art photography and fine art known outside Hamburg.
Carmen Oberst turns the world into a stage: she routinely uses found events and randomly present people to create a fantastical production from the group of works "Rods of Imagination - On the Road" through the medium of photography.