source: tobiasfaisst

Tobias Faisst challenges the observer to a play with associations. The photographer`s pictures leave a lot of space for individual interpretations. His pictures do not have to be understood. He allows the observer to fill his work with one’s own content. The photographs, however, always follow a given structure: Graphic image buildup and color precision result in the general framework of his creative work process. Topics of interest arise naturally through a very subjective view on his surroundings. Connections between nature and staging, the overlap of reality and rendering, the relation between man and machine – fields that Tobias Faisst cultivates at times in his artistic development. Between the poles of art and design, close-ups of banality emerge, specifics that get lost in the wide-angle of objectivity and only become visible in extreme detail. For the viewer reality blurs into a self-defined sculpture. With intuition for materiality and composition Tobias Faisst prosaically reflects what gets lost in life’s complexity and pathos.
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source: ignantde

As we often come across artworks which have the same basic idea as a starting point, though their result still turns out very differently, we set up our Two of a Kind series, dedicated to the thought of having two artists working with the same ground materials, transforming them in their unique way into exciting artworks. This time we decided to pick two artists which have a very similar approach, to push this idea even further. Both participants are based in Berlin, working with still-live photography while they share a very minimalistic and abstract aesthetic.

We discovered the work of Tobias Faisst a few years ago, when he just started his studies in communication design in Potsdam. We introduced him and his series Triangulum on iGNANT in 2011. Meanwhile he finished his studies and is working as a designer in communication, as art director and freelance photographer in Berlin. He specialized in fashion, design, arts and culture and in music, often crossing the lines between photography and sculpture. He is mainly engaged in editorials and branding. We appreciate his minimalistic approach, working with great compositions and bold color-blocking. He definitely has an eye for structures and interesting forms, that he collects on his Tumblr, while he also launched some great Zines, that you can find here. Often playing with everyday objects in his works, we considered Tobias Faisst the perfect candidate for one of our Two of a Kind features. We provided him with three items, that he transformed into abstract still lifes.
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source: behance

Im a graphic designer, photographer and
artdirector from Berlin. My focus lies on branding,
editorial design and still life photography.
I graduated from FH Potsdam in autum 2014
as a Bachelor of Arts.

So far worked for several clients
in the fields of design, fashion and food manufacturing.
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source: ignantde

In der “Triangulum” Fotoserie bewegt sich der Fotograf Tobias Faisst zwischen Surrealismus, Human Sculpting und Fashion. Er lässt sich dabei von Materialien inspirieren, die er in seiner Umwelt wahrnimmt. Faisst ist gelernter Mediengestalter aus Immenstadt und lebt zurzeit in Berlin, wo er Kommunikationsdesign studiert.