TECNOCRETO, artist book, 2022
This project was started as a sort of visual diary during an extended stay in Mexico City in 2019 and finished in Berlin in 2020.
I collaged collected images and geometric shapes I had airbrushed into a large blank book. Once completed, this “scrapbook” was scanned and adapted for publishing.
TECNOCRETO subjectively explores connections between industrial construction processes, commercial graphic design, Mexico City as a place of exile and emigration and the poetic and transformational potential of art when it is understood primarily as a form of healing.
Published by Visible Publications
Softcover
104 pages Wire-O bound
Three color covers hand screen printed
10” x 8”
2022, silkscreen, gouache, collage on board with artist frame
29.75” x 21.75”
2021, silkscreen & collage on paper with artist frame
25.75” x 41.5”
2022, silkscreen, gouache & collage on board with artist frame
21.75” x 18”
2022, silkscreen, gouache & collage on board with artist frame
29.75” x 21.75”
2022, silkscreen, gouache & collage on paper with artist frame
25.75” x 41.5”
2022, silkscreen and collage on board with artist frame
29.75” x 21.75”
2020, silkscreen & collage on paper with artist frame
29.75” x 21.75”
2022, silkscreen & collage on board with artist frame
21.75” x 21.75”
2022, silkscreen and collage on paper with artist frame
21.75” x 29.75”
2022, silkscreen, gouache and silkscreen on board with artist frame
29.75” x 29.75”
2022, silk screen, airbrushed ink & collage on board with artist frame
25.75” x 41.5”
2022, unique silkscreen on paper with artist frame
41.5” x 25.75”
2022, silkscreen & airbrushed ink on paper with artist frame
29.75” x 21.75”
Installation view, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Installation view, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Mechanical Fantasy Box
The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick Cowley With Illustrations by Gwenaël Rattke
Illustrations and visual design for the book published by Dark Entries Editions in 2019.
The book contains seminal musician and producer Patrick Cowley’s journal entries from 1974 to 1980, as well as numerous illustrations (collages, airbrush pieces, etc.) by me.
The book pays homage to Patrick Cowley, an extraordinary visionary whose creative impact is greatly felt to this day.
2018
“The Human Error presents a selection of work made between 2008 and 2018, a period of time that marks Romer Young Gallery’s 10 year collaboration with the artist. The work is characterized by a continued dialogue and interaction between Berlin (where Rattke lives and works) and San Francisco, a city which greatly informed and influenced the artist’s body of work.”
from the press release of the exhibition, Romer Young Gallery, 2018
Further information here
Silk screen and airbrush on board, 50 x 50cm, 2018, private collection
Silk screen and collage on board, 19,5” x 15,5”, 2017, private collection
Silk screen on plexiglas, 26” x 19.75”, 2016
Unique silk screen on paper, 19,5” x 15,5”, 2018
Airbrush on board, 11” x 18”, 2018
Silk screen & collage on board, 14” x 11”, 2018, private collection
collage on paper, 27.5” x 19.5”, 2018
Silk screen & collage on board, 39,5” x 27,5”, 2018, private collection
silk screen & collage on board, 11” x 14”, 2018, private collection
collage on paper, 18,5” x 15,5”, 2018
Risograph poster for the exhibition printed by Colpa Press
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Front & back cover of 12” vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2022
Front & back cover of 12” vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2021
Front & back cover of 12” vinyl record, Machineries of Joy Records, 2021
Front & back cover of 12” vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2021
front & back cover, 12” vinyl, Dero Arcade Records, 2020
front & back cover art of vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2019
Front & back cover art of vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2017
Front & back cover art of vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2015
Front & back cover art of vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2019
Front & back cover art of vinyl record, Dark Entries Records, 2015
2016 - 2017
San Francisco Reverberation is a limited edition portfolio of silk screened prints (edition of 25). It was made while I was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and the Kala Printmaking Institute (Berkeley, CA).
The portfolio contains 40 original prints and comes in a custom slipcase.
The project is a subjective and free-associative homage to San Francisco and an illustration of my ongoing rapport to the city. Beyond this, it is an exploration of the ambivalent nature of nostalgia.
Here a selection of prints.
The San Francisco Reverberation portfolio is also available as a facsimile reprint in book form from Visible Publications available here
Selected works 2014- 2015
Presented at an exhibition at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, 2015
Unique silkscreen on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2014, private collection
Unique silk screen on paper, 50 x 70cm, 2014, private colection
collage on paper, 21,6 x 28,4cm, 2014, private collection
Collage on board, 40 x 50 cm, 2014, private collection
Unique silk screen on paper, 2015
Collage on paper, 21 x 28 cm, 2014
Collage on board, 40 x 50cm, 2014
Collage on paper, 50 x 40cm, 2014
Collage on board, 70 x 50cm, 2015, private collection
Collage on board, 70 x 50cm, 2015, private collection
Silk screen on paper, 50 x 70cm, 2014
Poster for the exhibition
a selection
Design for limited edition print in conjunction with the release of the documentary film by Rachel Mason, 2019
Poster for performance by Mind Shaft Theatre, San Francisco, 2018
Silk screen poster, 2017
Silk screen poster to celebrate the release of the book Edgewise - A Picture of Cookie Mueller, 2014
Silk screen poster to celebrate the release of the book Edgewise - A Picture of Cookie Mueller, 2014
Silk screen poster, 2018
Silk screen poster, 2018
Poster, Berlin, 2016
Silk screen poster for Phil Dadson’s exhibitions at the Window Gallery, San Francisco and at Audio Foundation, Auckland, 2017
Silk screen film poster, 2012
Part of a series of posters illustrating In Search of Margo-go, a film by Jill Reiter, 2014
Part of a series of posters illustrating In Search of Margo-go, a film by Jill Reiter, 2014
Lezzies on X, circa 2005
Edgewise - A Picture of Cookie Mueller is a book by artist Chloe Griffin about the late, great Cookie Mueller, published by B-books Berlin.
Chloe and I conceptualized the visual design of the book. We laid out the entire book by hand first, cutting and pasting the visuals (an homage to graphic design techniques of decades gone by), before adapting it to 21st century printing standards. The book also contains numerous illustrations made by me.
It was a true labor of love.
You will find a few excerpts from the book here. For more information:
Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller
Edgewise - A PIcture of Cookie Mueller, cover, 2014
The Whole Story, collage, 2012, excerpted from Edgewise
Deadlines & Divine Distractions, collage, 2013, excerpted from Edgewise
The Anomalous Nobility, excerpted from Edgewise
The End of The World, excerpted from Edgewise
Excerpted from Edgewise
Pink Flamingos à la carte, excerpted from Edgewise
They Really Were All Criminals, excerpted from Edgewise
Excerpted from Edgewise
Excerpted from Edgewise
Excerpted from Edgewise
Berlin Stories, excerpted from Edgewise
Excerpted from Edgewise
Selected works 2012 -2013
Work presented in the exhibition False Contact, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, 2013
silkscreen on museum board, 50 x 50cm, 2012, private collection
silk screen on canvas, 68 x 90cm, 2011, private collection
solvent transfer and collage on board, 50 x 40cm, 2012, private collection
acrylic & silkscreen on canvas, 145 x 100cm, 2012
acrylic & silk screen on canvas, 150 x 110cm, 2012
silk screen on canvas, 140 x 100cm, 2012
acrylic and silk screen on museum board, 100 x 70cm, 2012, private collection
Collage on canvas mounted on wood, 140 x 100cm, 2011
acrylic and silk screen on museum board, 50 x 70cm, 2012
acrylic and silk screen on museum board, 50x70cm, 2012
acrylic and silkscreen on museum board, 100 x 70cm, 2012
Silk screen on canvas, 140 x 100cm, 2012
Acrylic & silk screen on board, 70 x 50cm, 2012
Selected works 2009 - 2011
collage and gouache on board, 50 x 70cm, 2009, private collection
graphite on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2010, private collection
paper collage, 50 x 70cm, 2009
paper collage, 70 x 50cm, 2010, private collection
Collage on board, 70 x 50cm, 2010
silk screen, gouache, tinfoil & collage on board, 40 x 50cm, 2010
collage & watercolor on paper, 70 x 50cm, 2010
Collage on paper, 70 x 50cm, 2010, private collection
Silk screen on paper, 70 x 50cm, 2011, edition of 10
Selected works 2007 - 2008
collage on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2007, private collection
collage on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2007, private collection
collage on board, 40 x 50cm, 2008
collage on paper, 50 x 70cm, 2007
collage on paper, 50 x 70cm, 2008
graphite on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2008
collage on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2008, private collection
Wald
collage on paper, 40 x 50cm, 2008, private collection
Collage on paper, 70 x 50cm, 2006, private collection
Collage on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2008, private collection
collage on museum board, 100 x 140cm, 2008, private collection