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BERLIN – Berlin based artist and illustrator Adam Lewin recently created the key visual artwork for Berlin Fashion Week - Showroom Days. The artwork was on the cover of the official Berlin Live- Showroom Days magazine and on posters that appeared all over pivotal locations in the city of Berlin during fashion week. ‘Showroom Days’ featured more than 150 national and international designers and artists, both emerging and established, to show their collections, installations, retrospectives, and photography at over 50 locations across Berlin.
Lush, precisely crafted images seem to be a refreshingly radical departure from the anti-aesthetic concept driven art that has dominated the Berlin art scene. There is an apparent interaction between the deliberate and the accidental, cognitive and automatic but most importantly there is an unapologetic striving for beauty. It is a beauty that reflects the chaotic multiplicity of urban life.
This illustration is done in an exciting, unfamiliar style that gives a contemporary nod to melted surrealism and biomorphs, while making playful stylistic references to manga, natural science drawings, and a collision of hyper-fantastic imagery in the popular imagination.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Lewin was born in New York City in 1970. He studied at Pratt Institute and The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands. He has worked as an illustrator and art director since 1992, and started his independent career as a fine artist in 2005. Lewin currently lives and works in Berlin, and teaches design at Berlin Institute of Design.
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