The project is made for all people who identify as one of the others and embrace transitoriness. Jan vormann invites playful interaction by patching crumbling walls with lego bricks. He quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations, and in recent years, particularly with his project dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with a material of popular culture the well known lego plastic construction pieces. Jan vormanns global dispatchwork project uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls. A founding member of the t10 studios in berlin, jan vormann is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Since 2007, berlinbased artist jan vormann has used tens of. The sleepy little village of bocchignano, where life revolves in fixed traditional patterns, by some seen as a dying relict of the past times, is now introduced into our present, the shortbreathed and plasticdesigned twentieth century. An ironic nod to the sadly superb multicolored stains of oil left on the asphalt by cars and visible after the rain.
See more ideas about lego, street art and urban art. Artist jan vormann uses legos to repair wardamaged buildings. German artist jan vormann brings global dispatchwork. The makeover breathes new life into what used to be inconspicuous spots, transforming a gray city into a playground of colorful surprises.
Artist jan vormann uses legos to repair wardamaged. In vormann s series dispatchwork he identifies war damaged. Jan vormann was interviewed at his installation on the green in aberdeen on friday 19 april 2019. In his ongoing project, dispatchwork, artist jan vormann uses legos to repair. Jan vormann aka lego man for nuart 2018 streetartnews. Recently the artist took his dispatchwork project to stavanger. It is a group of everyday people, mostly mommies, who love art and try out different artists artworks. Jan vormann fills in gaps, holes and clefts in walls and streets, public buildings and private houses with plastic bricks, mostly with lego.
Jan vormann s global dispatchwork project uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls. From a recent project in korea, his collaborators said, we are in korea. Dispatchwork is the series that artist jan vormann has been working for the past 10 years, an ongoing series where vormann or his followers. The dispatchwork activations of jan vormann brattbeat. The dispatchwork activations of jan vormann hifructose magazine. Inspired by jan vormann s interventions throughout the festival, the dispatchwork project will culminate in a public big lego build on easter sunday april 21 held at the rooftop garden above the st nicholas centre.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Vormann s project titled dispatchwork has spread worldwide in cities like london, new york, and tel aviv. Vormann encourages others to join him in his playful additions to cities across the globe, and as built an interactive website to track new additions from cape town to seoul. Hes the german artist who travels around the world repairing buildings with broken crevices and filling them with lego. Jan vormann s dispatch inspired us so much and so we did as follows. Dispatchwork berlin by jan vormann today and tomorrow. The artist repairs the holes in damaged walls with colourful plastic building bricks. Jan vormann uses lego to repair walls as part of his popular dispatchwork project. Vormann will say he has no intent in this project, that it means nothing, but i think he is so wrong. See more ideas about street art, lego and lego wall.
Dispatchwork a project by jan vormann residency period. Jan vormann has been travelling the world with his dispatchwork since 2007. August 6 in civitacampomarano the few locals dont care if the kids are now called ali and anwar instead of alberto and antonio as long as cheer and laughter fill the abandoned alleyways with life and joy. He uses plastic construction bricks of all colors and sizes to fill in the missing pieces on various structures.
For his berlin series of dispatchwork he selected buildings still damaged from world war ii. The bricks fill the spaces in the walls left by decay and are a. With dispatchwork he initiated a project eleven years ago, in which he seals cracks and fissures in facades by using legos. This german artist started repairing broken, gloomy buildings with colorful lego pieces during venti eventi, a contemporary art festival in bocchignano, italy in 2007 and since then, he hasnt really stopped. Dispatchwork is the name of a very peculiar movement created by jan vormann. Its good to see that jan vormann is still, after all these. The bright and colorful composition create a delightful juxtaposition from the. Plastic construction pieces are used to repair and fill holes in broken walls. Juxtapoz magazine 2019 nuart aberdeen begins to rollout. The dispatchwork activations of jan vormann by andy smith posted on january 25, 2020 for more than a decade, jan vormann has used legos to craft dispatchwork for centuriesold structures, public spaces across the globe, and other eroded areas. Installation dispatchwork is the series that artist jan vormann has been working for the past 10 years, an ongoing series where vormann or his followers have been fixing the world in color with their lego signatures all around the globe.
Besides a new exhibition architecture for dispatchwork, he will show the current version of his soapbubble lifeextension machine, a machine which keeps bubbles alive by protecting them against gravity and dehydration. Two weeks ago, we took part to a workshop leaded by jan vormann, artist and creator of dispatchwork, a nice, colored urban hacking practice which consists in filling holes in stone or brickmade wall with hundreds of lego bricks. Dispatchwork aims at childhoodmemories in abstract shapes and towards a global collaboration of persons unknown to each other in vivid colors. A founding member of the t10 studios in berlin, he is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Jan vormann was present in ljubljana in november 20 during the sonica festival to make a public intervention with his work dispatchwork. The dispatchwork project also includes inhabitants of the communities it visits. The artwork was part of jan vormann s dispatchwork project which he brought to the third edition of the nuart aberdeen festival which took place between 1821 april 2019. German artist jan vormann brings global dispatchwork project to. Jan vormann invites playful interaction by patching crumbling walls. He describes the project as a forum to further develop, piece by piece, a global game together, one that encourages citizens to take back public space and leave their mark in a playful way.
Plastic construction pieces are used to repair and fill. Vormann describes the project as a forum to further. A founding member of the t10 studios in berlin, jan vormann is. Jan vormann talks about his dispatchwork project patching up walls.
In his forthcoming exhibition ludizid at grimmuseum, jan vormann will present three new works. For jan vormann, broken corners and missing red tiles make for ideal places for creativity. Jan vormann brings his dispatchwork project to aberdeen. His shortlived repair technique offers a humorous alternative approach to public spaces. Some of his installations use only a handful of toy. Jan vormann invites playful interaction by patching. For more than a decade, jan vormann has used legos to craft dispatchwork for centuriesold structures, public spaces across the globe, and. German artist jan vormann uses lego to put colorful twist on urban design. Imitating the multicolored oil stains left on the street by gasolinefueled vehicles, vormann s iridescent mosaics, which he burns into the asphalt, are a poetically ironic nod to beauty and beastly. Thanks to the generous support of numerous foundations, organisations and privates a worldwide network of participation has since been created.
Bien urbain 2019 jan vormann gestures of caring on vimeo. He finds artistic motivation for many of his pieces by observing and researching a new experience and by seeking. Jan vormann has in a project, urban spatial intervention dispatchwork, created a real international platform, which through play and playfulness through participation creates a subtle manifestation of the. With dispatchwork he initiated a project eleven years ago, in which he seals cracks and fissures in facades by. Recently the artist took his dispatchwork project to stavanger, norway where.