Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen!
I started making paintings on postcard size cardboard back in 2002, so I
could send colorful artwork to friends and family. The first series was
called "Dis-Advertise" a humorous punk rock kind of name making comment
on that many of the cards I was getting to paint on where the
advertisement postcards one finds in bars, clubs and restaurants. This
series continued for awhile up to 1001 and then I stopped. There where
two short series entitled "Philadelphia" of postcards I made in
Philadelphia Pennsylvania when I lived in west Philly, and another brief
series entitled "Bethlehem" of collage painted cards I made in
Bethlehem Pennsylvania at my grandmothers house. In 2006 I started a new
series of postcard art entitled "Sub-" inspired from "the Manifesto
from the sub-" or "sub-real manifesto" that Dr. K. Malcolm Richards and
myself wrote the first draft of in 2005. This series is still going on
at the moment in my studio, where I give these "sub-" numbers not only
to the thousands of postcard art I make but also paintings, videos,
sculpture, works on paper, stencil prints and sometimes even sound
pieces. The "Sub-" series currently is at number 8,199 and I plan to
continue the series until 10,000 when I plan to retire the series name
and move on to another project.
I have been working often in color again ever since I had my accident in
Berlin Germany in February 2013 where I broke my foot and hip. Working
with large amounts of color was not something I did much since before I
studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For some
reason during my PAFA years and up to living in Berlin I often would
work in black, white and grays, partly do to my focus in printmaking but
I feel my time at PAFA was very grey times for me (with the exception
of my postal art which usually always has been done in many colors). I
feel I had to rediscover color in my life in the time I spent living and
working in Berlin Germany.
Last week I did a small abstract series on postcards with humor in mind
was entitled "Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen" (Kermit and Gumby
playing soccer). It shows the kind of humor my mind produces when I
allow it to come out. You see green feet and a green ball in some of the
images as if it is being kicked around. Now these pieces like most of
the postcard paintings I do where painted on the back of scrap
cardboard, from old boxes, pizza, beer boxes and anything else I find.
It is part of daily goal to produce less garbage and to recycle as much
things as I can that I use. It may be a silly series and not so fancy or
large but it made me laugh looking at it.
-David Stanley Aponte, 22.5.2014, Indianapolis Indiana
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8210 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8211 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8212 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8213 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8214 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8215 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8216 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8217 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8218 |
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| Kermit und Gumby sind Fußball spielen, Sub- #8219 |
