“Seen from distance the wallpaper seems simply an antique baroque motive, but coming closer you will discover that thousands of ants are crawling on the walls creating this baroque wallpaper…”
This ANT’IQUE wallpaper is a winner project of “New Walls, Please!” 2007. ANT’IQUE wallpaper has been created by young and talented team GAMplusFRATESI.
GAMplusFRATESI is a designer union, including Stine Gam from Denmark and Enrico Fratesi from Italy. The artists claim that this union of two countries helps them find their project ideas. With their design they wish to tell a story that finds inspiration from the simple everyday gestures to the deeper parts of our cultures in a fusion of technology, poetry and tradition. GAMplusFRATESI have a great success all over the world, they participate in numerous exhibitions all over the world: NewYork, Las Vegas, Berlin ,London, Milano, Copenhagen.
Another artist so famous with his ants motives is Peter Kogler. Ants seem to really fascinate him: ant walls, ant floors, ant pictures, ant wallpapers – ants all around you!
Peter Kogler is among the internationally most successful Austrian artists of his generation. Despite invitations to participate in numerous prestigious exhibitions of the last decade – the Venice Biennale (1995) or the documenta in Kassel (1992 and 1997), for example – there has been no comprehensive presentation of his work until now.
That reminds me of the time that thousands of winged ants came in my room in the middle of the night and covered my walls. And crawled on my face and in my ears. No seriously. I still have a fear of ants.