Material is a gallery /bookshop based in Ludlow (Shropshire) and London (Shoreditch). We sell beautiful prints and artwork designed by artists from all over the world, working a myriad of disciplines including giclŽe prints, silkscreen prints, letterpress, furniture making, product design, and interiors. We also sell books concerned with design and aesthetics (in subjects such as Graphic Design, Typography, illustration, fashion, architecture, photography, furniture /product design).

Berlin graphic artist Ralf Ziervogel here presents more than 100 obsessive, small-format, dip-pen drawings that depict a descent into hell--at scale. His subjects are caught in extreme and horrifying situations, sometimes caught up in giant cobwebs, other times dominated by sadistic machines.

His subjects are caught in extreme and horrifying situations, sometimes caught up in giant cobwebs, other times dominated by sadistic machines.

'The vehicle is tipped over by a drugged suburban techno freak. A rope from the lorry pulls an overcrowded submarine that continuously fires torpedoes with extra hand grenades chained onto them and children wearing party hats. At the rear a cut off head of an elephant is kept alive with adrenaline injections, its trunk pierced with two large fishing rods is sniffing on the naked buttocks of a baldhead clothed in Adidas. Simultaneously the man commits sodomy with a sizzling pig in two frying pans on a portable cooking stove. In an instant, he will be perforated by cannonballs from a mortar that is operated by a guy adoring his muscles.' - Ralf Ziervogel (2005)

Hardcover, 432 pages

English and German Text

100 b&w illustrations

245mm x 105mm