Andres Manniste
Studio work and selected internet projects
the future
(2023-2024)
I began this project by painting a Ford Thunderbird.
I woke up having had a dream of images from my past floating in speech bubbles. Each bubble contained an item such as a house, or a car or a summer cottage. These were less memories than flashes on the screen of a browser. The dream reminded me of the mid 1970s, a period when experiencing a temporary shortage of oil made everyone question their dependence on fossil fuels.
Like all dreams and memories, the images I am working with are not quite accurate and not quite as well-researched as a historical documentation. Sources taken from internet are fused on the surface of the painting reflecting an understanding of a past from a distinctly different present.
Selected Digital works 2025-2026
1025 X 768
(2017- 2022)
In this piece I was working with a subjective combination of diametrically opposite images but the source images are hard to decipher at first sight.
I believe that everything in culture has been made and recorded. All that is left now are associations that we make between the things that already exist. The cross pollination of what we have done as people is what is left for us to create with.
I embody the traditional manner of painting, the tradition of time and labour connects me with the past and the present.
. Through an experiential act I am associating and connecting the two poles of the earth through my own time as a testament to my physical presence and ontology and to things that will never touch.
The format, 1025 X 768 represents about 1 megabyte (MB) of data in a compressed image commonly found on line.
Selected Digital works 2018-2024
Selected Digital works 2015-2017

dreams destroyer of worlds (2016)

How do you imagine Heaven? (2016)

Water (2015)

Human development (2015)
Selected Digital works 2012-2014

Ducks and Cars (2013)

It's electric! (2013)

Tell Them You're from France (2013)

Dance dance dance (2014)

Pieces of Art History (2014)
Sorry (2014)
Selected Digital and internet works 2003-2010 (Please activate pop-ups on your browser)