Zurich-based illustrator Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, is exhibiting a room-filling multimedia installation featuring new drawings at the message salon.
Using black lines, the artist documents his immediate surroundings and everyday life through precise and slow observations. When travelling, his sketchbook is his constant companion. GRRRR’s illustrated travelogues from cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA read like excerpts from large panoramas, featuring streets, people, billboards, graffiti, rubbish, traffic signs, trees and cars. Due to the abundance and accuracy of the details, the drawings are more than documentary illustrations; they are meticulous, artistic observations and a fantastically alienated, critical view of the present.
Ingo Giezendanner also captures his hometown of Zurich with his pencil, continuously drawing derelict buildings, squatted houses and construction sites, thus creating an alternative index of the ongoing transformation of the city of Zurich.
The linear black-and-white drawings are always the starting point for further artistic exploitation in various media. Since 1997, GRRRR has published numerous fanzines, posters, artist books and animated films, including the award-winning music video “Gib mer” (Give me) by Zurich rapper Big Zis.