For God and Profits: Wooden by Antoni Tudisco.

As an art director and graphic designer, Antoni Tudisco considers it his great passion and privilege to be able to communicate ideas. He is a young designer form Germany with an extraordinary visual and graphical capability. This series of work called “Wooden”, explores the idea that certain objects should, or are, usually made of particular materials. When these things appear not to be, we are left with a heightened sense of wonderment as to how they were created. Tudisco is working with the medium and tools of today, software. But I would argue that he has acquired such skill with his tools, that he sits firmly within the great craft traditions of stone and wood carving dating back centuries. The Wooden project helps us to conveniently explore this idea through the work of the wood carver, Grinling Gibbons (1648 – 1721). He produced carvings of fruit and flowers for Hampton Court Palace, in England as well as other great buildings of the day. His patrons, the were Kings and Cardinals, rulers of great empires with immense wealth and influence. Likewise, Antoni Tudisco already has an enviable client list of great corporations, the immensely wealthy and powerful organisations of our day! But where as the church commissioned its craft in the name of God, suggesting eternal connotations, the God of Mammon, is an altogether more transient proposition. It would be interesting to see this modern artist and craftsman explore his talents for the sake of art itself.

  Gratitude to Behance for drawing my attention to Tudisco.