The artist duo 44flavours Sebastian Bagge and Julio Rölle have been working together since 2003. Their artistic activities include painting, ceramics, sculptures, prints and objects. The painted object can be a piece of cardboard, stone, wood, a vase from a flea market or any wall standing somewhere in the world. 44flavours' creative energy flows into their immediate surroundings just as naturally as the classical canvas and reveals their quest to explore the world and its surroundings.
44flavours’ art is unadulterated, direct and intuitive: they use strong colors to create a pop art painting mix of spatial innuendo, Op art, figuration and symbols.
The juxtaposition of styles, perspectives and illusions, leads to a contemplation with erratic discoveries.
This mix is the result of the work process, which can be viewed as an action-reaction between the two actors. Each step is a response to the previous action of the other.
In a seemingly perpetual creative development, the duo spontaneously uses and processes randomly available materials. While the painting on canvas plays with different perspectives and illusions of space, the objects and sculptures function like an appropriation of space.
Discover and assign: It is the diversity of artistic manifestations (in public space, in painting, in sculptural work) that introduces us to 44flavours’ philosophy to life. Every discovered action on every day and every place in the world poses anew the question of where and how, of personal and social identity and anchoring in this world.
Text: Elke Giffeler
Artist statement
»We recognize the potential in any space, canvas or object. Each surface is also an opportunity to re-imagine or redefine it with painting.«
Short Vita
44flavours are Sebastian Bagge & Julio Rölle
Julio Rölle, born 1981 in Bersenbrück
Sebastian Bagge , born 1981 in Oldenburg
Both live and work in Berlin.
since 2003 Collaboration as 44flavours
since 2016 Projektraum Raum Vollreinigung
since 2019 CassiusClayClay Ceramic Collektive
since 2005 various international art projects and exhibitions in Brest, Toulouse, Thessaloniki, Den Haag, New York, Tokio, Cali, Pondicherry, Glasgow, Cardiff, London, Porto, São Paulo, Port Luis, Beirut.
They have taught, lectured and held workshops at various Universities e.g. Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale), HfG Offenbach, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim.
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© 2003 – 2022 Bagge & Rölle