Cihan Tamti
100 Posters 2019 —2020
Bochum Dortmund Lozenets Bergen Munich
100 Posters 2019—2020 Bochum Dortmund Lozenets Bergen Munich Cihan Tamti
Editorial
2021
In 1947, Raymond Queneau wrote a diabolically cryptic book entitled Stillübungen (German for Stylistic Exercises). The classic is a clever language game, a story that can be summed up in a few words. On a bus, the narrator meets a young man with a long neck, wearing a soft hat with a braid as a ribbon. The young man exchanges a few sharp words with another traveler and goes on to change seat. A little later, the narrator sees the same young man in front of the SaintLazare train station talking with a friend who advises him to adjust (or add) a button to his overcoat. The stylistic exercise undertaken by Queneau consists in presenting this everyday episode in numerous variations — whether as comedy, sonnet, haiku, dream, official letter or interrogation, in Alexandrian or Art Nouveau, whether culinary, setmathematical, onomatopoeic, female or reactionary. The poster has a very similar story: it is a man with a hat who wants to tell the world about something. The man shouts from a billboard, a poster rider, an advertising pillar, or any other suitable public surface. Today, however, this man does not exist very often any more. He actually no longer exists in real life. He is a ghost, a fictional man. The man has left the physical space and miraculously disappeared into the net. Surprisingly he has quite often nothing really to say. While the form remains quite the same — Keep It Short and Simple (KISS), variations in motif structure and eye catchers, bring color, contrast, font size, area and motif into play — the content is not so important anymore, it became cheap and easy to say something without deeper meaning. While the man says “look at me” quietly he is ashamed of being read. What is even more fascinating is that he touches many more people on the net than he did in the old days on the street: reaching the girl with the pink hair in New York, the guy with the bald head in Munich, the hipster in Johannesburg, and even the older dude in the Parisian bus. Just as Queneau knew how to tell one and the same story differently over a hundred times, Cihan Tamti not only succeeds in this exercise, but also permanently gives the main protagonists a new role.Sometimes it’s a little man on the bus, sometimes a tall guy on the net. The man in the net jumps back onto the street. Sometimes the man in the ghetto heads back onto the net. Sometimes he has a joint appearance, both in the real and in the virtual reality. The man constantly changes his cover and playfully intrigues the viewer. But even more interesting than this confusion are the selected t opics. Cihan’s posters are not only exercises in style, but each one takes a look at contemporary topics, offering information, reflection and thought games. The more than 100 style exercises — sorry, posters — therefore, show one thing: Cihan has a hell of a lot of fun b ringing form and content together. His work is therefore a homage to the poster and its endless possibilities. Lars Harmsen
Selected Posters Sometimes foreign Reden ist Silber, schweigen ist Gold Kobe Bryant Homage Run Stop scanning me Tropitone Bar Schöne neue Welt Print is not dead Sample Konstruktive Kunst 1928 Hype Stubenarrest The most beautiful Let me use your fear Amrei Kehr Alternative Coexist Sorry, we are closed Move Open Collab Bergen, of course it rains Homebound Seven Questions — Homebound Quarantine Effect — Homebound Soin — Homebound Unlocked — Homebound K-Manns K wie Kartoffel Editorial Lab #5 Printworkshop — Klaus Staeck Café Eden Kunstmuseum Bochum Königskinder & Rebellen Planetarium Bochum Travel Slam — Rotunde Das Milchhäusschen Zauberkasten
Feeling free while I am covered Weniger Miete Protest Facts Black lives matters The great emptiness Ego Random Send Change my name Hayabusa 2 Make America ... ohhh Hidden information Giga Medium Breath & Symbiosis Contact Climate change Vom Kumpel zur Bedrohung Ich kenn die Blicke Oft bemerkt, nie verändert Black is beautiful The stairs of design Face to face Self-reflection Starlight Express Bermuda 3Eck Telefon Seelsorge Ikigai Sotoudeh Postmigrantisches Theater ADHOC Bochum Silence was never gold Wir müssen visueller werden Step up Battle Open call COVID 19 A true musician Die letzte Instanz Beethoven Ludvig Holberg
Sometimes foreign
30
2019
Bergen, Norway
Sometimes foreign
31
2019
Bergen, Norway
Kobe Bryant Homage
34
2020
Munich, Germany
Run
35
2020
Munich, Germany
Print is not dead
40
2020
Munich, Germany
Sample
41
2020
Munich, Germany
Konstruktive Kunst 1928
42
2020
Munich, Germany
Konstruktive Kunst 1928
43
2020
Munich, Germany
Hype
44
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Stubenarrest
45
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Alternative
52
2020
Bochum, Germany
Alternative
53
2020
Bochum, Germany
Move
54
2019
Bergen, Norway
Move
55
2019
Bergen, Norway
Open Collab
63
2019
Dortmund, Germany
Bergen, of course it rains
64
2019
Bergen, Norway
Unlocked — Homebound
69
2019
Bochum, Germany
K-Manns
70
2020
Bochum, Germany
K wie Kartoffel
71
2020
Bochum, Germany
Editorial LAB #5
72
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bochum
75
2020
Bochum, Germany
Königskinder & Rebellen
76
2020
Bochum, Germany
Planetarium Bochum
77
2020
Bochum, Germany
Travel Slam — Rotunde
78
2020
Bochum, Germany
Feeling free while I am covered
81
2020
Munich, Germany
Weniger Miete Protest
82
2020
Munich, Germany
Ego
89
2020
Munich, Germany
Random
90
2020
Munich, Germany
Hayabusa 2
93
2020
Bochum, Germany
Make America ... ohhh
94
2020
Munich, Germany
Giga Medium
97
2019
Bergen, Norway
The most beautiful
98
2020
Munich, Germany
Vom Kumpel zur Bedrohung
103
2020
Bochum, Germany
Ich kenn die Blicke
104
2020
Munich, Germany
Ikigai
113
2020
Bochum, Germany
Sotoudeh
114
2020
Bochum, Germany
Postmigrantisches Theater
115
2020
Bochum, Germany
ADHOC Bochum
116
2020
Bochum, Germany
Wir müssen visueler werden
119
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Step up Battle
120
2019
Bochum, Germany
A true musician
123
2020
Munich, Germany
Die letzte Instanz
124
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Beethoven
125
2020
Dortmund, Germany
Ludvig Holberg
126
2019
Bergen, Norway
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