wallpaper expo

Since december we're working on a few projects that for the moment we cannot show or that aren't yet ready. There's an illustration, an interesting live painting, a cover for a magazine, an artwork for an online magazine, some painting and a sculpture for Costa Crociere, a few graphics and paintings, and of course there are some new idea and projects for our future productions! :-)

We hope to show you something soon, but in the meanwhile we post some sketch.

Apparently it’s only a piece of colored paper cut, folded and pasted… and indeed from many point of view it is. Once ready, however, an Hangselm can play many different roles within the home life, the social life and in several other fields (not excluding astrophysics and marine biology), and could only be so. 

An Hangselm is made to hang on to something or someone and hang out at all kind of places, it can hang together with those who love him or hang on hanging from the handle of the front door (if hung in the kitchen perhaps can even get the hang of cooking!)

We created this project with the first series consisting of five elements (The Dirty Painters Series) that we also painted in Locaro at Villa Balli. One of the ideas of the project is to involve various artists (graphic designers, painters, illustrators, etc…) and that’s why there will be other series.

Visit Hangselm's website: www.HANGSELM.com    ...and also its facebook page!

Visit Hangselm's Website!

...here the painted Hangselms... if you want to see more, just check

the previous post on this blog!

Here we go with the pictures of the Villa Balli painting in Locarno... but not only!! As already mentioned, in february we made an outdoor painting on the old shop windows of the unhabited Villa Balli in Locarno for the exhibition "Il Definitivo è Trasformazione" (today, the 6th of march 2010, will be the inauguration).

We were free to decide what to do and this work, named "Dirty Painters - Cut + Fold", is our way to interpretate the idea of "transformation" in a funny way and it was the occasion to create something more than a painting.

In fact, we added a 3D element inside one of the shop windows and we planned everything to be a painting, a sculpture and a paper toy at the same time. This is how Hangselm is born.

As you can see in the following pictures, there are four "uncut" charachters on the wall and all of them are painters. The fifth has been cut out and built, and it's free to paint as he likes. 

Hence for the occaision we decided to let you interact with our work and we created a paper-toy to cut and fold, named Hangselm. The Hangselm Dirty Painters Series is at the same time the outcome and the beginning of this work, as well as the first series of our first paper toy. 

You can easily download a printable version of Hangselm here.

Click on the images to enlarge them...

...and here is the Hangselm paper-toy (downloadable here) in some of its favourites activities.

"Have you ever thought that's there's too much empty space on your jacket? That it's missing something before your eyes while driving? That your wardrobe gives a sense of sadness every morning? ...or simply that something unusual around you would be nice?

Well, it's time to build your Hangselm!"