This ‘art to wear’ is a collaboration between Lucian Barbu and Karmaklubb* / IGWTLI publishing, 2025. Screen printed by 10/10, Oslo. Very limited edition of 80 + 5 (AP).
ASCII drawings inspired, and put together, from dreams, reveries, current interests, and solstice wishes. Everything got channeled into digital-teddybear-fairies and ceremonial-community-meal-polly-pockets.
is a Timișoara-based visual artist, chasing their own tail, oscillating between drawing, comics, graphic design, and (self)publishing. Lucian is part of two collectives, ↗︎ Balamuc and↗︎ afterhoursworkclub, as well as a duo they formed together with ↗︎ Ana Kun, LuciAna.
The drawings being exhibited at ‘↗︎ A Song Used to Lull a Child to Sleep’ curated by ↗︎ SLPOVR Project at ↗︎ MATCA artspace in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 26 June–7 July 2025. This and the following photo
by Mădălin Mărgăritescu / ↗︎ YAP studio. More doc ↗︎ here.
ASCII self-portait. Courtesy of Lucian Barbu.