ICONS

Copyright Viktor Hertz 2013. Personal project.

ICONS is a series of portraits of people who somehow have achieved iconic status for different reasons. The portraits are composed of a mosaic of small icons, that have been carefully selected and represent different events and themes from the peoples' lives and activities.

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One night in spring 2012, I got a call from Bond Strategy and Influence, a creative agency in New York, who asked me if I wanted to make an alternative movie poster for the Bob Marley documentary ’Marley’. Very honored and flattered, I made a portrait of him, making a mosaic of lots of small icons that symbolize the work and life of the late reggae music legend. Ever since I finished this artwork, I felt compelled to make a whole series of these portraits in the same style and technique- so the Bob Marley pictogram portrait movie poster was originally the seed for ’ICONS’.

An early test draft of Salvador Dali, who ironically enough never ended up in the final list of finished artworks. I wanted to see what size the icons should be, when printed out on a 70 x 100 cm area.

Without quick access to a large digital printer, you have to get out your scissors and tape for once!

I never finished this draft, and you can see that the icons are a bit short in numbers. Dali is on the to-do-list now, though, so expect him in the near future.