Tobias Dostal

In 2017, the Horst Janssen Museum in cooperation with the Claus Hüppe Stiftung is presenting its sixth graphic arts award winner, Tobias Dostal (*1982). With his drawings, Dostal, a student of Schlingensief, succeeds in producing moving images and fascinating filmic illusions. Transformations of human beings, animals, and objects are animated in a surprising way and shown on projection devices that the artist develops himself. References to the early years of cinema are unmistakable. The exhibition publication provides a fascinating look at the astonishing combination of the very diverse media of drawing, film, and installation, which Tobias Dostal brings together in a technically ingenious and simultaneously poetic way.