Swiss designer Demian Conrad has created a series of posters for a flea market in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Called Mercantico, the posters feature photographed compositions of objects from the market.
Here’s some more information from Demain Conrad:
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“Brocante” is a french word used for flea and antique markets. “Mercantico” takes the name after this concept.
The idea of the campaign is to capture the attention of the audience by creating artistic and unusual compositions of vintage objects.
Project: Mercantico
Client: Ondemedia
Where: Bellinzona – Switzerland
Art direction design: Demian Conrad
Poster F4
Card A6
December 15th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
kind of a fischli and weiss ripoff, but still nice.
December 15th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I enjoyed fishli and weiss version better
they made quite a few of these installations
http://www.bos2008.com/app/biennale/artist/118
or is this just a swiss thing?
December 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I really like the idea of using the products sold at the flea market and composing them into fine balanced structures. Very nice also the choice of the objects.
December 16th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Very cool! I like the idea of the objects composition. Full of creativity. Beautiful works thanks!
December 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
very cute.
December 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Beautiful images.
It has a beautiful composition.
Well done
December 18th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
lovely, but a total rip off of the totally rad duo Fischli and Weiss’s
“Quiet Afternoon 1984–5″
http://www.bos2008.com/app/biennale/artist/118
December 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
This work for mercantico is not a rip-off of the swiss artists but an “homage” to their work.
The idea is to use a clear artistic frame and transfer it into a new context.
As Duchamp teached us, that a common object into an artistic frame change value,
I personally try to put the artistic frame over a common object, in this case objects coming from a flea market.