Jacky Winter is pleased to present Make Piece, a three part show of puzzles, more puzzles and a public puzzle solving tournament! The first element in this venn-diagram-of-a-show, features Clemens Habicht’s newest entry into his Colour Puzzle range, the 1000 Colours Wheel. It also sees the launch of the new Jacky Winter Signature Edition puzzles, featuring artworks by Kate Banazi, Marc Martin and Karan Singh. Rounding out the exhibition is Habicht’s PUZZLED FACES, an illustrative exercise in collaged puzzle artworks. Large solving areas will be set up for visitor participation and play during the week, with a public puzzle solving tournament happening on each Saturday for the duration of the show.

PUZZLED FACES is a a series of portraits, each built out of a single vintage jigsaw puzzle of 1000 pieces. The faces were drawn out of landscapes by imagining loose recognitions of facial features. By wilfully ignoring the correct placement of tiles as dictated by the puzzle fit, a second visual read is made possible by effectively forcing the puzzle pieces together incorrectly. Puzzled Faces follows on from Clemens’ two previous solo exhibitions at Lamington Drive, 100 KITES (2009) and 100 FACES (2014).

Clemens Habicht was born in Sydney. He lives and works in Paris. His film work has been commissioned and screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland and Camerimage Festival, Poland. Clemens has directed music videos for bands including Liars, Tame Impala, Flume and Bloc Party. He collaborated with Sydney Dance Company to create the staging design for Anima, and has been commissioned to design publications for the Palais de Tokyo Paris, the Sydney Biennale and the Secession Museum Vienna.

Clemens’ Colours Puzzles are exhibited at the Smithsonian Library in Washington and available through the Design Museum in London and the Herman Miller Store New York, as well as the MoMA Design Store. His illustrations have been commissioned by clients including Creative Review Magazine London, Soho House London as well as the City of Sydney and the Sydney Theatre Company, and he is a regular contributor to Baumeister Architektur Magazin Germany.

He has lectured in design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany and at the University of Technology UTS, Sydney. He is represented for film work by Collider films - Australia, Quad productions - Paris, and by Jacky Winter for illustration in Australia and New York, he is also a Director of Galerie Allen in Paris.