Picture "2011" (2016)

This is a single sheet from the Kieler Woche 2016 collector's folder. Every year a poster selected by a jury is published for Europe's largest annual sailing event in Kiel, Germany, called Kieler Woche, which is also available in a limited edition as a hand-printed collector's edition.

At the ceremonial opening of Kieler Woche 2016, the Mayor of Kiel and the Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein each received a folder with 6 award-winning poster motifs from 30 years. We offer the other 15 copies of the portfolio as well as a limited edition of the individual sheets on ARTES.

ARTES is the exclusive publisher of the sheets and portfolio, which were created under the patronage of Professor Bernhard Stein of the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Participating artists are Doris Casse-Schlüter (1985), Rosmarie Tissi (1990), Henning Wagenbreth (2009), Melchior Imboden (2011), Ariane Spanier (2012), Stan Hema (2016).

The colour screen prints were created using classic pigments in the award-winning hand screen printing workshop Kreuzberg in Berlin.

Original colour screenprint by hand in 6 colours on Pur Coton, 2016. Edition: 30 copies, 15 of which are in exclusive folders, numbered and hand-signed. Unframed. Sheet size 72 x 54 cm.

Producer: ARTES Kunsthandelsgesellschaft mbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland E-Mail: info@kunsthaus-artes.de

About Melchior Imboden

Melchior Imboden (*1956 in Stans, Schweiz) studierte in der Grafik-Fachklasse der Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst. Seit 1992 arbeitet er als freischaffender Künstler, Grafiker und Fotograf im In- und Ausland.

Seine Plakate, die vor allem im Kulturbereich positioniert sind, sowie seine Photographien wurden vielfach national und international ausgezeichnet. 1998 wurde Imboden Mitglied des Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) und war von 2006 bis 2010 Präsident des AGI Schweiz.

Werke von Imboden befinden sich u.a. in der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur oder in der Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Er lebt und arbeitet in Buochs in der Zentralschweiz.

Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.