Felix Stern

My artworks shown here (some developed within the “Dotography” project), show a kind of pointillism, using mostly color dots. The basis of the origin Dotography works are photographs, which I take through a darkened box with a perforated plate, allowing only color dots entering the box and therefore the camera. Later, when the works got more abstract or expressing a special feeling, I used special units and fields of colors, arranged according to principles of relation and chromatic interaction.
The visual and emotional response to color and form is important. You can say that color and form together play a music reflecting a feeling the artist has experienced or wants to express, in addition by giving the created work a matching title. Many of my artworks are inspired by an urban feeling that I bear from my 4 years living in New York.
Although my works don’t appear to be based on any particular patterns from the real world, they are nevertheless influenced mostly by the effect of urban surroundings on the human eye. And there, the music of the colors is essential for my connection to the real world.

A bit of a quirky CV:
Studied graphic design, working in an ad agency, then decided to become a lawyer, working in the IT business for 18 years.
In 2012 I responded to the call of the arts that got so strong I couldn't resist. So now here I am with lots of colors and circles, i hope you enjoy!

October 2016 - February 2017: 12 Hay Hill, London, GB

September 14-25, 2016: EAF at ABC Berlin, Germany

June 13-15, 2016: Enter Art Foundation: Pop Up Show ART Basel

May 2016: Atelier St. Alban

June 2015: Rusterholtz Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

November 2014: Regionale 15, Stapfelhus, Weil am Rhein, Germany

August 2014: Galeriehotel "Der Teufelhof", Basel, Switzerland

September 2014: DS Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

October 2014: Kunst Zürich 2014, Switzerland

June 2014: Cargo Bar, Basel, Switzerland

I'm certainly influenced by US Pop Art and some great Swiss graphic artist like Max Bill, Le Corbusier, Franz Gertsch etc., or Bridget Riley. Colors and forms together with the freshness of their expression have appealed to me since I was a child.

pop art, graphic art, switzerland, circles, print, dots