The door that swung wide open for Till Nowak happened with the release of his infamous image “Salad”, done as a tribute to Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor and set designer H.R. Giger and Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Not too long afterwards, Till was contacted by H.R. Giger’s agent Leslie Barany from New York, whom he would both later on meet. He has since directly worked with Giger, and can’t be more thrilled and excited to be able to collaborate with someone he has for many years been fascinated with. Till says, “He is a lovely person and I meet him from time to time. I visualize some of his ideas for him, which is more like experimental, unofficial work on a personal level.”
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Earlier, he was invited to work together with Barany to create a piece for his latest project “Carnivora – The Dark Art of Automobiles”, a compilation of car-related art done by about 100 artists. It will be released as a book and the originals will be shown in an exhibition, opening in Detroit this weekend. The piece that Till created illustrates a nice co-existence of 'old-world' with its dirty griminess of a metropolis, combined with the future of hovercrafts and spacey vehicles. “Blowout at Exit 16A” is a collage of styles adopted from some of Till’s earlier projects, but as with the majority of his visual pieces, they also carry a social statement. “I started with 3D models that I took from my past projects and then I replaced it with parts from photos and overpainted it so that it became something like a matte painting. The original 3D model of the background city was adapted from my short film “Delivery”. I was showing Leslie a draft of the image and he came up with the idea of someone changing the tire. For me, it is a symbol that shows there can also be weakness in our high-tech future. The guy is not a 3D model, he was composed into the image from a real photo. It is Eli Livingston, a well-known sculptor, who was photographed by Leslie when they really had to change a tire some months ago. That’s also the origin of the title, because it happened at an existing interstate exit 16A in New Jersey. The image is something like an advanced version of “Delivery”-scenery. It’s the future, but it’s still based on our world of today and some old buildings still exist. The palm trees and the warm sunlight could also be a sign for a climatic change that happened.”
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Earlier, he was invited to work together with Barany to create a piece for his latest project “Carnivora – The Dark Art of Automobiles”, a compilation of car-related art done by about 100 artists. It will be released as a book and the originals will be shown in an exhibition, opening in Detroit this weekend. The piece that Till created illustrates a nice co-existence of 'old-world' with its dirty griminess of a metropolis, combined with the future of hovercrafts and spacey vehicles. “Blowout at Exit 16A” is a collage of styles adopted from some of Till’s earlier projects, but as with the majority of his visual pieces, they also carry a social statement. “I started with 3D models that I took from my past projects and then I replaced it with parts from photos and overpainted it so that it became something like a matte painting. The original 3D model of the background city was adapted from my short film “Delivery”. I was showing Leslie a draft of the image and he came up with the idea of someone changing the tire. For me, it is a symbol that shows there can also be weakness in our high-tech future. The guy is not a 3D model, he was composed into the image from a real photo. It is Eli Livingston, a well-known sculptor, who was photographed by Leslie when they really had to change a tire some months ago. That’s also the origin of the title, because it happened at an existing interstate exit 16A in New Jersey. The image is something like an advanced version of “Delivery”-scenery. It’s the future, but it’s still based on our world of today and some old buildings still exist. The palm trees and the warm sunlight could also be a sign for a climatic change that happened.”
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