A whole new take on bathroom mosaics
Christoph Niemann is a former New Yorker and now Berlin-based artist who writes a blog for the New York Times. Niemann's Abstract City is always an interesting read. He talks a lot about his family and their transition to living in Germany. In a post he wrote in August, he talked about his bathroom renovation project.
According to Niemann, he'd continually had a dream of doing abstract pixel drawings of masterworks using nothing however colored 4x4 ceramic tile. 4x4 is the default size for bath tile and it's something I chase humans faraway from underneath ordinary situations. After having seen Niemann's handiwork, I doubt I'll be so quick to disregard the stuff anymore.
Check this out. Here are two David Hockneys. And next to each is how Niemann interpreted them in 4x4s.
In some type of a play for my sympathies, he took on a Rothko and it has me swooning.
Now, he's the use of layout software program to attract a grid after which he is assigning every rectangular a colour from a palette. I'm in reality floored by what he did here. I suggest, who ought to consider taking boring antique 4x4s and turning them into this? Certainly not I.
So after gambling around for a while, he settled on a Warhol.
Using Andy Warhol, who turned into himself doing an homage, in a toilet makes prefect feel and right here's the shower stall he ended up with.
I actually have never seen something like this. I'm used to searching forward at new stuff that is coming down the pike, I in no way think to prevent and re-evaluate what is already here. These tiles are anywhere and he in all likelihood paid a dime apiece for them. I go through my ordinary running life questioning that wall tile that expenses $35 a rectangular foot is cheap. 4x4 ceramic is thus far under my radar that I can not even see it. Pardon me, my paradigm just shifted.
So with the grasp bath carried out, Niemann grew to become his attention to the bathroom shared by way of his 3 sons. He relates that his sons are enthusiastic about the New York subway gadget, so he became his decoding talents to an MTA map.
His plan became to tile the complete bathroom, so he imported his layouts into a three-D renderer.
So with his layout rendered, all that turned into left to do became set up the tile. Check this out:
Mr. Niemann, I owe you a thanks. Several thank yous without a doubt. I read the New York Times every day because I like to stay informed and I believe that the Times maintains my horizons increased. Sometimes, and this is one of these times, they get increased to this point I do not apprehend them anymore. Wow.
