Here I paint with ink and alcohol on YUPO, a synthetic paper recycled from plastic. Ink reacts on this even and waterproof paper very fascinating to spirit that consists of 90% alcohol. This process leads to astonishing results. More specifically the alcohol decomposes the ink within the pigments, allowing new shades of color to appear within the same color. The liquid ink mixed with alcohol is being moved by heat and air with a hair dryer or a straw on the surface until it becomes completely dry. This creates beautifully luminous and slightly transclucent layers of paint. This procedure can be repeated continuously until the composition becomes harmonious. The surface is occasionally sprinkled with pure alcohol creating shapes reminding of the cosmos.
©Janka Stemmle
Video (00:54min) produced with Girts Apskalns
Reseda Zürich 2019
Three selected KOSMIC works are currently exhibited at the Reseda Showroom Zürich
KUNST AM (AB)BAU Zürich 2019
Soul City Mira Zürich 2023 (solo)
Hotel Rivington & Sons Zürich 2023
⇾ Online KOSMIC Alcohol Ink Workshop
produced with PaintEvents & Girts Apskalns
produced with PaintEvents & Girts Apskalns
⇾ The next face-to-face KOSMIC Workshops will be from spring 2024 at PaintEvents and in total there were fifty-four past KOSMIC Workshops on the 22nd of February, 25h of January 2023 and on the 21st of December, 2nd and 30st of November, 21st of September, 9th of September, 10th of August, 13th of July, 15th and 8th of June, 18th and 3rd of May, 28th and 30st of April, 6th of April, 17th of March, 2nd of March and 16th of February and 12th of January 2022 and the 8th of December, 24th of November, 27th of October, 29th of September, 14th of July, 12th of May 2021 and on the 25th and 11th of November, 16th and 7th of October, 24th, 13th and 10th of September, 26th and 19th of August, 15th, 2nd and 1st of July, 27th and 17th of June, 4th of March, 27th, 20st and 13th of February, 24th and 3rd of January 2020 and on the 21st of December, 15th, 13th and 1st of November, 20st of September, 23rd of August and 27th of June 2019 at PaintEvents
