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Tiberius Sanders
2019 edition
THE PROMISING GRAPE
photo Tiberio Sorvillo
original artwork for The Promising Grape 2019
Tiberius Sanders
artwork for THE PROMISING GRAPE
The Wind Tree
oil on linen
70 x 50 cm
2019
Private collection Italy
Tiberius Sanders label design for THE PROMISING GRAPE Edition 2019
Dolcetto Nero 100%, hand picked on the hills in Cossano Belbo. When received in the cellar, they are destemmed, crushed and stored in steel tanks. Fermentation takes place at temperatures ranging between 25 and 28°C. The must/wine macerates for a week and then is pressed. Only the wine obtained from the softest pressing will constitute our Dolcetto d’Alba. When the malolactic fermentation is finished, the wine is put into the older barriques, so that its strong varietal aroma is preserved and, at the same time, the short aging enhances its body and structure. Here it remains for two months and then returned to steel tanks until bottling.
colour : ruby red with violet reflections.
aroma : open, intense and very fruity. Characteristic of strawberry jam, violet, cherry, slightly spicy.
taste : on the attack you notice a soft tannin well integrated with a moderate body, good length and remarkable balance with its acidic part.
12,5 % Alc. 0,75L
edition: 2019
Dolcetto d’Alba
only bottles signed by the artist are still available; bottle numbers 11-20
Tiberius Sanders, 1990 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In painting I feel most akin to romanticism and magical realism. It is not that I am looking for a copy of old painting, but more a reinterpretation of what these masters painterly sought. In this fast-paced media age, I think it is very important to make a statement that seems to interfere with the fleetingness of the time in which we now live. In that sense, my paintings are an indirect criticism of society without wanting to be pedantic. Due to the confrontation of the silent element in a simple natural scene, I seek a position in social discourse. The fact that there is currently a global focus on the ecosystem also gives my work a platform in the social domain. Landscape painting is at the beginning of the evolution of painting. Painting landscapes in particular gives content and form to the history that we are in danger of forgetting.
Tiberius Sanders (1990) lives and works in Monesiglio, Italy
Tariq Heijboer
2020 edition
THE PROMISING GRAPE
photo Sophie Kiesouw
original artwork for The Promising Grape 2020
Tariq Heijboer
artwork for THE PROMISING GRAPE
Gestures
2020
Tariq Heijboer label design for THE PROMISING GRAPE Edition 2020
Dolcetto Nero 100%, hand picked on the hills in Cossano Belbo. When received in the cellar, they are destemmed, crushed and stored in steel tanks. Fermentation takes place at temperatures ranging between 25 and 28°C. The must/wine macerates for a week and then is pressed. Only the wine obtained from the softest pressing will constitute our Dolcetto d’Alba. When the malolactic fermentation is finished, the wine is put into the older barriques, so that its strong varietal aroma is preserved and, at the same time, the short aging enhances its body and structure. Here it remains for two months and then returned to steel tanks until bottling.
colour : ruby red with violet reflections.
aroma : open, intense and very fruity. Characteristic of strawberry jam, violet, cherry, slightly spicy.
taste : on the attack you notice a soft tannin well integrated with a moderate body, good length and remarkable balance with its acidic part.
13 % Alc. 0,75L
edition: 2020
Dolcetto d’Alba
bottle numbers 21-300 are still available
ABOUT GESTURES
Gestures is actually a digital typeface made by Tariq Heijboer with his hands, forming the alphabet together. The letters O and U can be seen as images on the label embracing the wine bottle. The relationship between the alphabet as a writing system, ordering language and the alphabet as a source of generating images comes back often in Tariq Heijboer his work as a graphic designer. These letters can be seen as a physical manifestation of language with the body.
Tariq Heijboer is an Amsterdam based graphic designer with a fascination for systems, collections and classifications. Tariq focuses on typographic, printed and site-specific projects, such as books, exhibitions, signage systems, typefaces and visual identities. He likes to experiment and attempts to leave room for coincidence. Tariq studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and Pratt Institute, New York. His work has be selected for The Best Dutch Book Design and Schönsten Bücher Aus Aller Welt.
Tariq Heijboer (1991) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sophie Steengracht
2021 edition
THE PROMISING GRAPE
original artwork for The Promising Grape 2021
Sophie Steengracht
artwork for THE PROMISING GRAPE
Dance
ashes and botanical inks, earth pigments ( red ochre )
charcoal of grapes
76 x 56 cm
2022
Sophie Steengracht label design for THE PROMISING GRAPE Edition 2021
Dolcetto Nero 100%, hand picked on the hills in Cossano Belbo. When received in the cellar, they are destemmed, crushed and stored in steel tanks. Fermentation takes place at temperatures ranging between 25 and 28°C. The must/wine macerates for a week and then is pressed. Only the wine obtained from the softest pressing will constitute our Dolcetto d’Alba. When the malolactic fermentation is finished, the wine is put into the older barriques, so that its strong varietal aroma is preserved and, at the same time, the short aging enhances its body and structure. Here it remains for two months and then returned to steel tanks until bottling.
colour : ruby red with violet reflections.
aroma : open, intense and very fruity. Characteristic of strawberry jam, violet, cherry, slightly spicy.
taste : on the attack you notice a soft tannin well integrated with a moderate body, good length and remarkable balance with its acidic part.
13,5 % Alc. 0,75L
edition: 2021
Dolcetto d’Alba
bottle numbers 21-500 are still available
The basis for developing my work, which consists mainly of paintings, etchings and drawings, lies in my experiences with nature. In being one with the natural world. Also in its continuous change of order, I find the essence of my artistic process. I attach great value to biodiversity and to depicting processes of decay and rebirth.
In natural rhythms and patterns, I see the mystical value of the inexplicable in what happens to and surrounds us in nature.
Processes of growth, evolution and decay are magical qualities in my view. Observing the infinite universe arouses my interest in cosmologies and folklore. Thus, fragments of various creation myths find their way into my sculptures, either consciously or unconsciously.
During my childhood, I was always surrounded by animals and nature. Shape-shifting and the symbolic relationship between humans and non-human animals therefore run like a through my work.
The Arched Garden
In March 2020, I started (with support from the Mondriaan Fund) to build a garden, from which I harvest plants to extract pigments. I use the pigments to make paintings and drawings, by dyeing and stretching fabrics, and by extracting ink from the plants.
I also dry the flowers and use them in dried form in the drawings.
When I harvest plants, I sow new plants, so that something is always growing. In this way, I also stimulate biodiversity and provide a habitat for bees and other insects.
Dance
In the work “Dance” that I made for Sand&Berg, I used ashes, earth pigments (red ochre) and the black in the butterfly/moth wings is made with the charcoal of grape vines. In my work the butterfly is a symbol for transformation and metamorphoses. In Sufi poetry the moth can’t help but flying into a flame and therebybecoming one with ‘the beloved” .
Björn Knapp
2022 edition
The Promising Grape
photo Willem Sanders
original artwork for The Promising Grape 2022
Björn Knapp
LIMBS-torn
oil on canvas
160 x 250 cm
2022
Björn Knapp label design for THE PROMISING GRAPE Edition 2022
Dolcetto Nero 100%, hand picked on the hills in Cossano Belbo. When received in the cellar, they are destemmed, crushed and stored in steel tanks. Fermentation takes place at temperatures ranging between 25 and 28°C. The must/wine macerates for a week and then is pressed. Only the wine obtained from the softest pressing will constitute our Dolcetto d’Alba. When the malolactic fermentation is finished, the wine is put into the older barriques, so that its strong varietal aroma is preserved and, at the same time, the short aging enhances its body and structure. Here it remains for two months and then returned to steel tanks until bottling.
colour : ruby red with violet reflections.
aroma : open, intense and very fruity. Characteristic of strawberry jam, violet, cherry, slightly spicy.
taste : on the attack you notice a soft tannin well integrated with a moderate body, good length and remarkable balance with its acidic part.
12,5 % Alc. 0,75L
edition: 2022
Dolcetto d’Alba D.O.C
bottle numbers 21-500 are still available
Body and corporeality are omnipresent themes of art and are thus also negotiated in the medium of painting. For Björn Knapp, a graduate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, they form the focus of his artistic work and his interest in painting. Colorful, fleshy surfaces stretch across the canvas and meet their viewers. But the bodies depicted are neither representation nor reference in their form. Rather, they pose the question of a shift, a change in the view. How do we look at bodies, with what sensitivity do we deal with them? Aware of his own position as a white, male painter, Björn Knapp does not make use of the established narratives of art history, but feels the need to show new unoccupied bodies. Figures and forms that do not reproduce the male gaze, but suggest a new physicality instead of the historical canon. Nevertheless, the artist draws on an existing stock of images as the basis for his creative process.
However, this is not fed by art-historically coded templates, but by his own, mostly spontaneously created photographs of body parts, rooms or landscapes. Through the subsequent processing, the pictorial elements are decontextualized and deconstructed in order to be re-arranged. As a loose collection of photographic sketches, they form the starting point for the painterly motifs. Based on the arrangement of the lines and color gradations, the suggestion of a silhouette and the carnality of bodies are created. Specific attributes and character traits are largely dispensed with in order to avoid the interpretation of possible representations and to depersonalize what is depicted – consequently, the concrete representation of facial features is omitted. The contour of the body is literally in the foreground, as is its muted, clear colouring. It is surrounded by a non-physical space, the idea of a blue sky or the memory of green meadows and forests.
Although the depiction of bodies in nature takes up a classic theme of academic painting, Björn Knapp’s painting tries to break away from the art-historical tradition and counter the usual forms of representation. It’s never about romanticizing landscape or physicality. Rather, it is the testing of a new way of looking at things and the design of a body that eludes prefabricated levels of meaning and readings that motivates the Düsseldorf artist to this constant confrontation.
Pina Bendfeld