Jari Genser | Visual Artist — Good Titles for Artworks

GOOD TITLES FOR ARTWORS
since 2017 | Acrylic and ink on paper, collage

Sometimes you have the title before you have the work.
You write down the title, something will come along.
At some point you have many titles but still no ideas for works.
It’s a tricky situation you got yourself into.
The solution: Just draw the title and make it a work.

Good Titles for Artworks is an ongoing project about language and art. The starting point was a collection of potential titles for future artworks and the realization that most of them would probably never be used (not at my speed). But I didn’t want to give them up either.

So I started painting the titles myself. Text = picture. Black on white, white on black.

I set no limits to the titles themselves, except the wish that they should not refer to already known slogans. That doesn’t mean, of course, that they are unique and new. Every sentence that can be painted on an A4 sheet of paper has probably been pronounced by somebody before.

At some point, the titles started to become independent until they came to a point where I was not sure if they are still titles after all. Once I committed myself to this project it was impossible to think of short sentences without already pondering their usefulness.

Naturally, that did not stop me from continuing with my small text paintings. So, what remains of the original idea is a growing collection of works and, of course, the title.

@goodtitlesforartworks

Ich muss das nicht ausprobieren
2019 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,5 x 26,6 cm

Arbeit ist gut
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20,3 x 26,6 cm

Es dauert
2018 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,7 x 26,6 cm

Find es gut
2017 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,5 x 26,6 cm

I am a boar
2017 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20,6 x 26,6 cm

I am coming
2017 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,7 x 26,6 cm

I told you
2017 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20 x 26,6 cm

I've got this strange feeling
2019 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20 x 26,6 cm

Hervorragend
2019 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20,5 x 26,6 cm

Ich muss das nicht schon wieder machen
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 21,1 x 26,6 cm

Vergessen Erinnern
2018 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,1 x 26,6 cm

Color is not
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,4 x 26,6 cm

Endlich erleben wir mal was
2021 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20,3 x 26,6 cm

I’m busy looking
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 20 x 26,6 cm

I’m busy relaxing
2021 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,3 x 26,6 cm

I’m busy not doing or thinking
2021 I Acrylic and ink on paper, collage I 21,1 x 26,6 cm

I’m busy I’m sorry
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20 x 26,6 cm

Überleg
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 21,7 x 26,6 cm

Warum glaubst du dir nicht
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20 x 26,6 cm

Wie meinst du das
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 21,1 x 26,6 cm

Bitte Standardschriften
2021 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20,3 x 26,6 cm

You don’t have to
2020 I Acrylic and ink on paper I 20 x 26,6 cm

GOOD TITLES FOR ARTWORS
since 2017 | Acrylic and ink on paper, collage

Sometimes you have the title before you have the work.
You write down the title, something will come along.
At some point you have many titles but still no ideas for works.
It’s a tricky situation you got yourself into.
The solution: Just draw the title and make it a work.