Chris Von Szombathy Part of his “77 Bottles” series—glass and/or plastic containers, acrylic (2008–2009)
Some package-related artworks by Vancouver-based, audio/visual artist, Chris Von Szombathy. Above, one of his the bottle/jar sentences lined up in rows. Like those sentence structure diagrams we had to do in Junior High School—only creative. Word-choice as consumer-choice: the bottles & jars that you keep on a shelf in your head. From which to choose your words. Carefully. (A limited vocabulary of 77 words)
“What I … work at is trying to keep my mind even to maintain a decent quality of life. But when that’s steady and I'm feeling good I like to go to toy stores and grocery stores. I really love to collect things that have the proper guidelines so I love looking for old tins. I have tons of old soda cans, boxes or various bits… Anything old.. especially if it’s orange, light blue or pale green. I really like things in those colours. Good speaking colours.”
Chris Von Szombathy (from an interview on FecalFace.com)
Below: red paint-as-ketchup and ketchup-as-blood—(as in: the blood of the tomato)—and we’re always happy to see anthropomorphic packages like the graphically-effervescent “marching” bottle, below.
It’s also important to note that the jar of peanut butter on the right, is the cover of his new book, “Fire Away.”
On left: “You'll Always Get What You Want If You Invent What Already Is”—acrylic on board (2010); on right: “Creative Condimentality”—polymer clay, wood, card, brush, etc. (2010)
Upper left: “Flav'R Full”—acrylic on card (2008); lower left: “the Shape of Things to Go”—polymer clay, styrofoam, inkjet stickers, etc. (2009); on right: “March”—digital painting (2006)
(More bottle/jar sentences, after the fold…)
More bottle/jar sentences from Von Szombathy’s “77 Bottles” series—glass and/or plastic containers, acrylic (2008–2009)
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
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