German artist jan vormann brings global dispatchwork project to. Recently the artist took his dispatchwork project to stavanger, norway where he participated in the 17th iteration of nuart festival. Born in 1983 in the city of bamberg, germany, the berlin based artist jan vormann initiated a creative and amusing project that would be. The dispatchwork project also includes inhabitants of the. The dispatchwork project also includes inhabitants of the communities it visits. With dispatchwork he initiated a project eleven years ago, in which he seals cracks and fissures in facades by using legos. Renowned artist jan vormann is bringing his much loved dispatchwork project, which uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls and structures, to the festival and has appealed to the public to donate bricks and join him in making a colourful claim to take back public space. Part of the aberdeen nuart festival, hes attracted quite a crowd of people looking curiously upwards. The bricks fill the spaces in the walls left by decay and are a commentary on the surface and structure of the. A founding member of the t10 studios in berlin, jan vormann is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Jan vormann brings his dispatchwork project to aberdeen. Thanks to the generous support of numerous foundations, organisations and privates a worldwide network of participation has since been created. The project is made for all people who identify as one of the others and embrace transitoriness.
Jan vormann fr jan vormann s global dispatchwork project uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls. Dispatchwork a project by jan vormann residency period. After 10 years of exploring the world and making lego interventions to city walls and masonry in disrepair, artist jan vormann invites you to contribute to the ongoing project dispatchwork. The dispatchwork activations of jan vormann hifructose magazine. Vormann placed legos into structures with missing grout, filled in bricks that have fallen out of walls, and built. Plastic construction pieces are used to repair and fill holes in broken walls. Jan vormann talks about his dispatchwork project patching up walls. The bricks fill the spaces in the walls left by decay and are a. See more ideas about street art, lego and lego wall. Jan vormann uses lego to repair walls as part of his popular dispatchwork project. He quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations, and in recent years, particularly with his project dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with a material of popular culture the well known lego plastic construction pieces.
High up on a cherry picker and jan vormann is patching up an old wall. All the legos used in the project were donated from the lego graffiti styles. Jan vormann brings his dispatchwork project to aberdeen and fills the walls with lego. Jan vormann talks about his dispatchwork project patching up walls with lego duration. It is a group of everyday people, mostly mommies, who love art and try out different artists artworks. Jan vormann s global dispatchwork project uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls. He describes the project as a forum to further develop, piece by piece, a global game together, one that encourages citizens to take back public space and leave their mark in a playful way. What happens when a young artist from the city of berlin is invited to participate in a project taking place in a pittoresque italian village of the sabina region. Jan vormann has in a project, urban spatial intervention dispatchwork, created a real international platform, which through play and playfulness through participation creates a subtle manifestation of the fusion of art and everyday life, through which the artist intervenes in urban greyness of everyday life. For more than a decade, jan vormann has used legos to craft dispatchwork for centuriesold structures, public spaces across the globe, and other eroded areas. Jan vormanns dispatch inspired us so much and so we did as follows. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Jan vormann invites playful interaction by patching. He quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations, and in recent years, particularly with his project dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with a material of popular culture.
Within these pieces, which take hours and hours to create, he hides passageways and windows that ignite the imagination. German artist jan vormann brings global dispatchwork. Jan vormann stocks up on street cred at nuart festival with one of his biggest installations to date. Artist jan vormann uses legos to repair wardamaged. This is an ephemeral project, noticing the transitory aspects of matter itself. Jan vormann brings his dispatchwork project to aberdeen and fills the walls with lego inspiringcity april 21, 2019 september 11, 2019 aberdeen street art, german street artist, installation art, jan vormann, nuart, sculpture. One of the artists we were excited to meet and see work during the 2018 nuart festival in stavanger, norway was berlinbased, jan vormann. The artwork was of jan vormann s dispatchwork project which he brought to the third edition of the nuart aberdeen festival which took place betwee 1821 april 2019. Jan vormann combines the very old with the very new in 2.
A talented artist will be literally building upon the success of an awardwinning aberdeen street art festival. The bricks fill the spaces in the walls left by decay and are a commentary on the surface and structure of the city. Jan vormann was interviewed at his installation on the green in aberdeen on friday 19 april 2019. Jan vormann aka lego man for nuart 2018 streetartnews. Jan vormann talks about his dispatchwork project patching. But lego makes everything look more attractive because everything is colorful. He finds artistic motivation for many of his pieces by observing and researching a new experience and by seeking. Dispatchwork by jan vormann i like the liquid look of. Worldwide everybody is invited to participate in this urban intervention and to upload the documentation on the website. To date, over forty cities have seen spontaneous dispatchwork initiated by the locals. Vormann highlights the urban vulnerability or the destruction of the city through its temporary repair. Jan vormann brings global dispatchwork project to nuart. Jan vormann s dispatch inspired us so much and so we did as follows. Once, he noticed that lego very often represents the most ordinary life of adults.
The artwork was part of jan vormann s dispatchwork project which he brought to the third edition of the nuart aberdeen festival which took place between 1821 april 2019. Jan vormann is bringing his dispatchwork project, which uses lego bricks to repair. Artist uses lego blocks to rebuild new york city design. Jan vormann aka lego man for nuart 2018 i support street. It is infectious in inspiring creativity and the desire to create. Dispatchwork consists in using plastic bricks, usually lego ones, to repair damaged parts of buildings and other constructions such as monumen. Inspired by jan vormann s interventions throughout the festival, the dispatchwork project will culminate in a public big lego build on easter sunday april 21 held at the rooftop garden above the st nicholas centre.
Juxtapoz magazine 2019 nuart aberdeen begins to rollout. From a recent project in korea, his collaborators said, we are in korea. Jan vormann invites playful interaction by patching crumbling walls. A founding member of the t10 studios in berlin, jan vormann is. Dispatchwork is the series that artist jan vormann has been working for the past 10 years, an ongoing series where vormann or his followers. Would love to visit each and every location that has the lego dispatchwork by jan vormann, hes using legos to cover up old buildings. Vormann has gained notoriety in a fascinating way, especially apart from his more conceptual gallery work. Artist jan vormann uses legos to repair wardamaged buildings. Artist to use lego to repair damaged walls and structures. In his forthcoming exhibition ludizid at grimmuseum, jan vormann will present three new works. Vormann describes the project as a forum to further. Dispatchwork aims at childhoodmemories in abstract shapes and towards a global collaboration of persons unknown to each other in vivid colors. We were proud that with jan vormann s dispatchwork project, we could also help our neighborhood a little far but still, neighborhood. The coloured plastic construction pieces of dispatchwork appear along the cities anonymously and.
Renowned artist jan vormann is bringing his much loved dispatchwork project, which uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls and structures, to the festival and has appealed to the public to donate. Jan vormann created the dispatchwork project, where he travels all over the world and restores buildings using lego. Dispatchwork is the series that artist jan vormann has been working for the past 10 years, an ongoing series where vormann or his followers have been fixing the world in color with their lego signatures all around the globe. Jan vormann combines the very old with the very new in 2 unusual projects artist jan vormann s dispatchwork, 2007, venti eventi bocchignano, rome, italy.
Dispatchwork consists in using plastic bricks, usually lego ones, to repair damaged parts of buildings and other constructions such as monumen 10. Jan vormanns global dispatchwork project uses lego bricks to repair damaged walls. Heres some of their latest work and be sure to check the website below to see if theres been some fixing on your city. We went to an old chapel in a church in a place called mehyangli, in hwaseongsi, and did some dispatch work there. Some of his installations use only a handful of toy. Plastic construction pieces are used to repair and fill. Vormann welcomes participants from all over the world to join the project. Using lego to save crumbling cities and buildings archdaily.