Globe

Size: approx. 13,3 cm x 13,3 cm

Italy: home of Mario, better known as Super Mario, supposedly the world's best known plumber. Together with his friend Luigi, who is known for making superb Pizza, he lives through many adventures in the famous SUPER MARIO computer game.

Perfect motifs for Mr. Ministeck and an hommage to the cutest computer game ever produced.

Mister Ministeck Norbert Bayer is known for his notorious pixelextravaganza and has created an unexpected renaissance of an almost forgotten technique: The mosaic. But he wouldn't be known as Mister Ministeck if his mosaics weren't somehow special: They're made from plastic. To be exact: From little plastic pieces, placed on a grid. This children's creativity-game named Ministeck was first produced in the sixties by a small bavarian company. Ministeck is clearly a strategy influenced by the DO-IT-YOURSELF / EVERYBODY-IS-AN-ARTIST prophets of the seventies: Artistic self-realization as a way of democratization of society. This phenomenon is reflected in the technical progress of the early eighties. With the introduction of the first personal computers like the C64 everybody was a programmer, do-it-yourself became WRITE-YOUR-OWN-PROGRAM. Mister Ministeck's way of combining those little plastic-pixels with images from the virtual world - for example screenshots / images from C64 computergames for the TouchScreens-series creates quite a paradox energy, which is even stronger in those images that have been rendered on the computer, for example the coverdesigns for the "Fucky don't CD" and "INPUT 64"-samplers.

Since 1999 Mister Ministeck's art could be seen in several exhibitions, for example at Maou-Maou- Gallery, Berlin or at group exhibitions with for example Takashi Murakami, Urs Lüthi, Jim Avignon and Evelin. After his graduation he's been working on the research-project www.return3D.de, a documentary about the 4th dimension in Marcel Duchamp's work, together with Prof. Dr. Ursula Panhans-Bühler. Besides that he's been busy doing illustrations for the german newspaper DIE ZEIT and LP/CD covers for several labels.
(c) Mr. Ministeck