Berlin by ROST by Scott Alexander

ROST is a Berlin based artist. The subject of his art is the city of Berlin, a city that he strips of its myth and romanticism and depicts it as it exists today, a city in transition, a city rebuilding and reinventing itself as international epicenter for the arts and culture. ROST's prints are very much influenced by Japanese manga, both the 19th century work of Hokusai and Hiroshige and modern day manga masters such as Katsuhiro Otomo.

You see his influences express themselves through the compositions of his drawings were he depicts the city’s sights often from unusual and subtle perspectives. On the other hand, his prints invite us to draw parallels between Otomo’s post-apocalyptic visions of Tokyo and the often decrepit condition of Berlin’s architecture. Rost does not dwell on the traces of the past, but shows us in a precise and crisp aesthetic and a graphical coolness that the past, present and future coexist seamlessly and without judgement in today’s Berlin.

This enhanced ebook contains all of ROST's prints, he made of the city between 2006 and 2012, an essay about his influences and relationship to the city, as well as a short video about his work process. The iPad edition includes a special enhanced feature called ‘ROST Remixed’, an animation that randomly assembles his pictures into an ever changing portrait of the city.