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2021, Friendly Capitalism Lounge, NEUROTITAN, Berlin, Germany
2021, donation initiative ÄGGF/BZgA/DeutscheAidshilfe x BeateUhseBag
In 2019, Tobias Molitor started documenting used plastic bags in the silkscreen technique. The idea is to research and document 100 plastic bags from around the world, reflecting on the phenomenom of consumption and its impact in all areas of life.
Famous and unknown brands underline the idea of the endless concept of consumerism. The number 100 stands for the statistical size (n), a sample size which is taken in order to understand and observe a larger population in a research. With every print of the plastic bags an individual story is revealed. This project is a work in progress.
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Famous and unknown brands underline the idea of the endless concept of consumerism. The number 100 stands for the statistical size (n), a sample size which is taken in order to understand and observe a larger population in a research. With every print of the plastic bags an individual story is revealed. This project is a work in progress.
The Aldi bag marks the start of the project. Designed by the artist and printmaker Günter Fruhtrunk (1923 - 1982) in the 70s, this plastic bag is also referred to as “most well known-unknown artwork in the country”, according to the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” because only a few people know the relationship between the shopping bag and modern art.
Skateboard
The following project is about used skateboards and the story behind the traces.
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Over a period of 8 month, a pre-sticked skateboard has been used by different riders to skate in their usual environment. Everybody with the same skateboard.
The tricks have been documented, likewise the traces on the surface of the deck, which become more and more visible over the period of time.
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Simoultanously the traces have become the foundation for the screenprint edition.
Three moments have been selected, beginning, mid and end in order to create a tryptich in the original size of the skateboard.
Over the period of time more marks and scratches become visible and the colourful deck transforms into a monochrome grey colored subject. Working on the final design of the screenprint this process of transformation has been turned into the contrast:
the scratches and stickers become more and more colorful, giving an allusion to the fact that through the active usage, the deck starts telling a story and becomes alive.
