The image’s “dangerous lab” that Pablo Bernasconi has in his “head/study” should be studied by researchers of art and words. Kalandraka stepped inside this creative and suggestive workshop in order to discover the amazing imagination in his works. He already showed this as illustrator in the book “27 stories to have soup” by Ursula Wölfel, also published by Kalandraka.

The text in this story is written in rhyme, and it could be the story of any curious child who becomes an inventor of his own artefacts by using the most unlikey objects: a rasp-hippopotamus, a telephone-rat or a sweeper-bird are some his creations.

Graphically speaking, Bernasconi is fond of mutations, of total changes in context and of metaphors created by linking references to generate discourses and ideas using animation of inanimate objects. Thus, new uses and meanings are created for elements that have nothing to do with the result of his creations. The author takes pictures, breaks things, hammers devices, burns papers… and the result is a play of contrasts that explores the relationships between shapes and concepts, textures and colours, and creates a unique and wonderful universe.