Sebastian Peetz

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Sebastian Peetz (born December 3, 1968 in Hanover ) is a multiple award-winning German artist and designer . He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design (Europe) in 1992. What his work has in common is the striking line and an often narrative framework of ideas - drawn, painted or cut and peeled open in three dimensions.

He is a representative of figuralism .

Life

Peetz immigrated to the United States in 1985 and spent a year at Portsmouth Abbey School , Rhode Island . His experiences there laid the foundation for his creative direction. He created the page layouts for the yearbook, designed his first digitally drawn logo on the Macintosh 512, which he had printed in a small print shop in Newport, Rhode Island, and took classes in oil painting and classic drawing from nature. Peetz then studied typography, drawing and design at the Art Center (Europe) in Switzerland from 1989 to 1992 , and he exhibited his first work at the Axis Gallery (Tokyo) before spending three years in Paris from 1993 to 1996 with the French Designer Philippe Apeloig started his apprenticeship. In 1994 Peetz drew the font Optha 1, a Braille- based font based on the Latin alphabet. It is palpable for the visually impaired and at the same time readable as Latin letters.

In 1996 Peetz returned to Hanover and founded his atelier for art and design peetz & le peetz design.

Since 2002 Peetz has given annual guest lectures on design at the Technical University in Lund (Sweden). He has been deputy chairman of the exhibition committee of the church council of the Marktkirche Hannover since 2015 .

Peetz drew the “Monstrous Calendar” five times, a black and white collection of 13 inked caricatures and grimaces (1999 to 2003). In 2005 Peetz drew the Kirchentage calendar with explanatory drawings for the Christian holidays and textual explanations by Manfred Becker-Huberti . In 2007 he wrote the text Kunst im Unternehmerhafen on the occasion of a panel art apology with Maja Stadler-Euler , chaired by the Senator for Culture Prof. Dr. Karin v. Welck in Hamburg with a catalog. In 2008, Peetz dedicated himself to shadow theater and recounted Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream in 60 golden silhouettes. In 2019, large-format narrative portrait works from the years 2008 to 2018 were shown at Leticia Maciel in Geneva. Sebastian Peetz stood in an oversized, mirrored hashtag during a public performance and drew digital portraits of the exhibition visitors. The results could be downloaded to mobile devices. In May 2019, Peetz launched “Mnemometrix”, a “digital line memory” in which he takes pictures of all the influencers in his life, colors them and outlines them with white digital lines. Peetz defines this purely digital drawing technique as "pawtrace" - drawing on an underlying image material (trace) with your hand (English paw = paw).

In September 2019, Peetz created fourteen artistic election posters with central European issues as part of Hanover's application for European Capital of Culture 2025 . Also in September it became known that the sculpturally designed bid book of the state capital around the novel by Juan S. Guse had been designed and implemented by Peetz for the same application.

Sebastian Peetz is married and has three children.

Works

  • Good braille my love A poster in Optha1, shown for the first time in the Anatome gallery in 2003,
  • Paradiso Haptograficò with Lorenzo Castore shown for the first time in the Galerie Vu in 2006 and in the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin in 2009
  • Winner sculpture of the International Violin Competition from 2009
  • Poster motif for the Fête de la Musique for Hanover 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014
  • The human town hall , metal sculpture Rathaus Hannover, 2013
  • Eva Tell , mirror sculpture, juxtaposition of the founding of Switzerland and Eva from Genesis, private collection, Geneva, 2019
  • Bid Book Hanover , application book for Hanover's application for the title of European Capital of Culture 2025

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1991 Axis Gallery Tokyo , Japan Univers
  • 1996 Peetzer Salon, Hanover, Paris period
  • 1998 Rittersalon, Andwerken
  • 2000 Salone Satellite, Milan , Coppermetrics
  • 2001 seven-day week, maids and servants
  • 2003 Galerie Anatome Paris , Braille
  • 2003 Cold store in Hannover slaughterhouse, Portographica
  • 2004 Carpenter Portographica
  • 2006 Galerie Vu, Paris , 80 + 80
  • 2007 Pingyao Photography Festival, (China)
  • 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair , shadow theater , shadow images for the book presentation
  • 2019 Galerie Espace_L / Leticia Maciel Geneva, Switzerland, Peetz Portraits

Awards

  • iF Design Award 2020, category ›Communication‹, for the Bid Book Hannover ECoC 2025
  • Red Dot Design Award 2020, category ›Brands & Communication‹ for the design of the Bid Book Hannover
  • German Design Award , 2021, Design of the Bid Book Hannover, Category ›Excellent Communications Design‹

Literature and publications

  • Church days The Christian holidays in words and pictures. lepeetzpress, 2005, ISBN 3-00-016307-7
  • Artwork - The artist in the business port. lepeetzpress, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026067-4
  • Midsummer Night's Dream Shadow Play of light based on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. lepeetzpress, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025425-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IF DESIGN AWARD: Explore all iF DESIGN AWARD winners since 1954 in our online exhibition. iF International Forum Design GmbH, accessed on February 8, 2020 (English).


personal data
SURNAME Peetz, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover