Dimensions: 95 x 90 cm
signed in composition: 'BLACKNOBYL'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'BLACKNOBYL | 'PLUS ULTRA' | Berlin 2015.'
Biography
He began creating his first stencils in the early 1980s. His list of inspirations includes Berlin with its punk culture, squatting and vibrant graffiti scene, as well as film classics such as Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" and works by cyberpunk artists such as William Gibson. In his works, Chernobyl creates a vision of a dystopian future, combining human portraits and machine illustrations in his finely cut stencils. By layering, duplicating, overlapping and rebuilding stencils, he has managed to create his own language of forms that is innovative, modern and communicative at the same time. Chernobyl is a very talented Polish stencil maker, living and working in Berlin since 1993, and is known for his intricate cyber-punk design. He has been cutting stencils since 1990, and today is considered one of Berlin's best pattern artists. His mixed style, which combines rough backgrounds with multi-layered grayscale stencils, results in captivating works of meticulous and precise images depicting strange, nostalgic figures, cyborgs and abstract patterns that look like hallucinations of a dystopian future. These biotech visions of mutants and outsiders are meant to warn us of our possible and not-so-bright future that humans are heading for, with our technological advances and unsustainable over-consumption.