THE PARIS CLUB ART EXPERIENCE | 2020

EN 37. INSTANT. BANANA Artist: Mike Trautz, Keltern Title: INSTANT.BANANA Medium: acrylic and lacquer on cardboard Size: 22 x 22 cm ZOGI is a designer and manufacturer of intelligent, design-oriented promotional products based near Karlsruhe in Southern Germany. For fifteen years, ZOGI has stood for creativity, innovative and proactive service as well as a fine sense for the zeitgeist and the trends of the future. This small-format work is, of course, an affectionate homage to Andy Warhol and his famous cover design for The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album – a milestone in both art and music history. But in fact, the response to Warhol was just a happy accident in this case: A single bright stroke on a piece of cardboard while the artist was working, and in an instant the was association was established and the self-confident contour traced... That’s one way art can emerge: from the magic of the moment, unintentional and effortless.