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Artition: Interview with Niclas Winters

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The young and extraordinary talent Niclas Winters creates work that is powerful both in texture as well as composition. While you feel rawness in his pieces the progress in his development of different skills and techniques is tremendous and continually increasing. His brand-mark might be the chimpanzee mainly throughout his drawings, which would metaphor his recent artistic status quite well: playful but very clever!

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

NW:
My art is an illustration and comment on my surrounding and state of mind. I am bringing my urban environment mixed with my personal comment on the canvas. In various ways I am reflecting my personality and using different characters to represent these factors.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

NW:
Everyday life inspires me, the street art scene and various artists such as Shepard Fairey (Obey), Takashi Murakami, Sam Flores etc. Everything is an inspiration if you make something out of it.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

NW:
The messages I am trying to make are conflicts in my surrounding and possibly of various other people. Stating the ovious in different forms and styles.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

NW:
Artition is a great medium of displaying your art and bringing it out to the people. It is also great to have the possibility to communicate with other artists and view their art works, their styles, their stories.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

NW:
Most inspirational artists which influenced my art a lot are Takashi Murakami, Banksy and Shepard Fairey although various other artists impress me with their work and help me find my own way in my art
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