Jan Vormann

 

Born 1983 in Bamberg, Germany

 

Jan Vormann fills in gaps, holes and clefts in walls and streets, public buildings and private houses with plastic bricks, mostly with Lego. For his Berlin series of „Dispatchwork“ he selected buildings still damaged from World War II. „The Lego brick has a nostalgic value amongst different generations worldwide, but at the same time it is all up to date. The combination of stone bricks and plastic bricks creates all kind of different contrasts that, in my eyes, illuminate relationships between esthetics and functionality. Undoubtedly the project bears depth in ways of perception of reality“

 

 



Jan Vormann, Dispatchwork (installation view, part of “Nur einen Steinwurf entfernt…”), 2009, 11 x 11 x 16 inches, Lego and plastic toy-bricks


Jan Vormann, Dispatchwork (installation view, part of “Nur einen Steinwurf entfernt…”), 2009, vary, Lego and plastic toy-bricks