Zeb One - E8

By gradually developing the typeface, Zeb One has maintained the continuity of his creative work. He never followed art trends much, his personal opinion and inventiveness was gradually shaped by graffiti, the street art scene, but also by his admiration for the aesthetic quality of floor plans as we know them from urbanism and architecture. The pursuit of the purest possible form without gestural and emotional elements eventually logically anchored him in a geometric and abstract expression based on typography. A calm and concentrated painting, in which the artist emphasizes maximum perfection execution, is created with a purist idea of the absolute work. It is preceded by a drawing sketch verifying proportional relationships, which the artist then mechanically transfers to the canvas with perfect precision. Over time, he developed a strictly defined working procedure, which includes, for example, the horizontal position of the painting pad or the order in which the individual areas of colour are applied and covered. Throughout this lengthy, patience-demanding process, the painting must be under rational control at all times; the finished work gives the impression that it was not even created by human hands. The shallow space of the painting is articulated by individual surfaces and colours that are interconnected. Although it seems to be primarily a purely optical effect of abstract geometric shapes, the image always hides some encoded message.Only when we decipher it, and thus understand the grapheme depicted, does it open up to us and the hidden content of the work.