Zeb One
Exhibited Artist
While gradually developing fonts, Zeb One maintained continuity in his creative work. He never really followed art trends, and his personal opinions and inventions were gradually shaped by graffiti, the street art scene, and also by an admiration for the aesthetic quality of floor plans, as we know them from urbanism and architecture.
The endeavor for the purest form - without gestural and emotional elements - ultimately and logically anchored him in a geometrical abstract expression, based on typography. Calm and concentrated painting, in which the author emphasizes the ultimate perfection of the execution, arises from the purist idea of the absolute work.
It begins with a sketch verifying the proportional relationships, which the author then mechanically converts to the canvas with perfect accuracy. Over time, he has developed a strictly defined workflow, which includes, for example, the horizontal position of the painting mat or the order in which the individual areas of color are applied and covered. Throughout the lengthy process, the painting must always be under rational control; the finished work then gives the impression that it was not created by human hands. The flat space of the picture is articulated by individual surfaces and colors that are interconnected.
Although it seems to be primarily a purely optical effect of abstract geometric shapes, the image always hides a certain coded message. Only when we decipher it and understand the graph, does the hidden content of the work open to us.
