Robert Hak and Tom Grimm are two artists who were born, live, and work in Rottweil. They are bound by a long-standing friendship that also extends to their artistic work.
Hak is a graphic designer, visual artist, and musician; as a multi-talented artist, he engages playfully yet with profound seriousness with the depths of the digital world in his work. He, too, knows that those who spend too much time, for too long, and too often in the virtual world lose their sense of the present moment and their connection to others. That is why his studio produces works that appear digital but are created analog.
Grimm is a storyteller and a sensitive contemporary artist who, with his carefully composed object boxes—which organize mostly trivial materials and catchphrases into small, self-contained systems—lastingly challenges familiar ways of seeing and thinking. These containers, usually made of wood, resemble a stage set on which the action unfolds. Main and supporting characters appear, portraying the dramatic in a comedic manner and the comedic in a dramatic one.
Hak is a graphic designer, visual artist, and musician; as a multi-talented artist, he engages playfully yet with profound seriousness with the depths of the digital world in his work. He, too, knows that those who spend too much time, for too long, and too often in the virtual world lose their sense of the present moment and their connection to others. That is why his studio produces works that appear digital but are created analog.
Grimm is a storyteller and a sensitive contemporary artist who, with his carefully composed object boxes—which organize mostly trivial materials and catchphrases into small, self-contained systems—lastingly challenges familiar ways of seeing and thinking. These containers, usually made of wood, resemble a stage set on which the action unfolds. Main and supporting characters appear, portraying the dramatic in a comedic manner and the comedic in a dramatic one.
