Axel Rössler

roessler@hfg-offenbach.de

T +49 (0)69.800 59-226

F +49 (0)69.800 59-202

Main building, room 108

Discipline

Screen Printing

Subject/Area

Faculty

Art

Function

Teacher for Special Tasks

Extern

printnow-riotlater.com
@printnowriotlater

Vita

Axel Rössler (*1966 in Langenhagen) found his way to digital design after studying linguistic sociology and education at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 1998, he worked in the field of digital design in various constellations and agencies until he was introduced to the experimental possibilities of screen printing by Ellen Wagner in 2008.
In 2014, during a five-year stay in Tucson/Arizona, they both founded the screen printing label »Print now - Riot later«, which they have since continued in Maintal. Their joint work specialises in textile screen printing - especially repeat printing on yard goods - but they also produce serigraphic works on paper and free artistic projects. Since the winter semester of 2022, Axel Rössler has been a teacher for special tasks at the HfG Offenbach in the field of screen printing together with Ellen Wagner.

Projekte

Piatti Anniversary light

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Swiss graphic artist and illustrator Celestino Piatti in January 2021, Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler, together with Piatti's daughter Barbara, developed the idea (and later the design) of a reading lamp with a striking owl motif. Piatti is best known in Germany for his more than 6300 book covers for dtv - the "feathered owl" adorned the cover of the dtv catalogue in 1968.

Fabric screen print on organic cotton, mounted on lampshade foil. Limited to 100 copies

Apple, Medlar & Quince (2019)

A visit to the exhibition »Harwood Steiger - Fabrics of the West« (Tucson/USA 2018) was the initial spark for the fabric yard goods printing at Print now - Riot later. The fruit motifs in the repeat are a tribute to Steiger's textile printing art of the 1960s and are the first multicoloured yard goods fabrics to be printed in Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler's newly established screen printing workshop in Maintal in 2019.

Screen printing on fabric yardage

Apple, Medlar & Quince (2019)

A visit to the exhibition »Harwood Steiger - Fabrics of the West« (Tucson/USA 2018) was the initial spark for the fabric yard goods printing at Print now - Riot later. The fruit motifs in the repeat are a tribute to Steiger's textile printing art of the 1960s and are the first multicoloured yard goods fabrics to be printed in Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler's newly established screen printing workshop in Maintal in 2019.

Screen printing on fabric yardage

Southwesten (2021)

Large-format wall hanging as a vehicle for an autobiographical narrative. Differences, interrelationships and commonalities of a life in Tucson with its strongly Mexican cultural scene and the familiar Hessian surroundings are depicted in collage form. The work was funded as part of a project grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung and exhibited for the first time in October 2021 in the Freitagsküche.

Printed in six colours on organic canvas (approx. 145 x 70cm)

Ashdecon (2021)

For this screen print edition, simple geometric scenes created in Cinema 4D were played out using the Redshift render mode 'world position pass'. The current camera position is represented by certain colours with regard to the distance to the centre of the scene. What sounds like a dull technique at first, results in quite unusual aesthetics that can be reproduced excellently in screen printing.

Series of six screen prints, 45 x 60cm