International Design Talks

The Art Of Clean Up

Ursus Wehrli
San Francisco 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013 | 13:00 | Lam Research Theater
Artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art — by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size. Beyond the whimsy, of course, is a serious message, to honor and balance creativity and messiness, form and chaos.

Ursus Wehrli

Ursus Wehrli is a left-handed, broad-thinking, professional typographer. His first book Tidying up Art is a visionary manifesto that took well-known artworks and put them back together in his more rational, more organized, and cleaner form of modern art. In his newest book The Art of Clean... Read More