PEKING DUCK / Michael Ryba

Brand： Heye

Number：29125

Size：68 x 48 cm

Pieces：1000 pcs

Release Year : 2006

Finish date：20150510

Artist：Michael Ryba

社團購買的全新未拆封，膠膜一拆就聞到霉味……絕版拼無可避免的風險啊。新手時期嘗試過曝氣、陽光殺菌，效果不佳還有褪色、菌落擴散的風險，還沒拼完就得作離別的思想準備，非常哀傷！

有了這次經驗，我就習慣購買二手拼，當然，這基礎建立在認識具有良好拼圖習慣的同好~

Heye是出了名的屑多，It’s OK；拼片薄但精實、咬合屬於「鬆」的那類；印刷棒，合作的漫畫家更棒！

拼圖介紹

最初版本是500片，在2001年發行，是以美食為主體的系列拼圖；其後，在2006年發行1000片。

One of a set of six extremely colorful and funny food puzzles. In this scene, the mysteries of the orient include Wok cooking, hungry Buddhas, temples, tigers, and kimono clad beauties.

Complete series: ‘Peking Duck’ (Ryba), ‘American Fast Food’ (Ryba),‘Wurst Mit Kraut’ (Jabo), ‘Paella Espanola’ (Prades), ‘Cuisine Francais’ (Ruyer) and ‘Pasta Italiana’ (Degano).

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細部照片

很理想的畫面，不分階層大家併桌吃飯

美艷老闆娘，路邊的猴子都對她比愛心手勢。比起和服，身上穿的更像是唐朝服飾。

表情與肢體很逗趣的猴子

聞香而來的老虎

這張清楚顯示捉鴨的動線；像巫師的掌廚者，應該是在炒鴨架(骨)

手刀切配菜；旁邊還有米袋，炒鴨骨的醬汁拌飯超好吃 (流口水)

華麗的烤架

烤架上的裝飾好像是這尊神

得到兩鍋供品的彌勒佛

紅黃黑配色、看起來很莊重的廟宇，及其後淡淡寫意的山水，廟裡藏著的黑影不知道是活物還是牲靈？

“外國人眼中的東方”大融合，這裡的裝扮很”越式”

Ryba的簽名很簡單，R的開頭拉彎成C，再加個圈就變成©

Ryba作品中最喜歡這張，每次看都能冒出不同解讀

Michael Ryba

Michael Ryba was one of the most versatile German artists of our time. Son of a lawyer, Michael Ryba grew up in the far north (Schleswig-Holstein) in a family of jurists. Yet, at an early age it became apparent that he would not follow in the juridical footsteps of his parents but leave the straight and narrow qualified by his distinctive, creative talent landing in the realm of art.

Ryba truly followed this path with all its ups and downs until his untimely death in 2014.

After his graduation from high school he studied graphic arts and painting in Kiel, Essen and Düsseldorf and among others at the academy for plastic arts where he was a student of Joseph Beuys. Quite in accordance with the cliché of the „poor artist“ Ryba started his career with small jobs somehow surviving hard times.

When he forwarded the rough copy of a children´s book to the publisher F. W. Heye the turning point was reached to build an international reputation. Heye recognized Ryba´s marked talent as a cartoonist and suggested drawing puzzles for adults to him. This resulted in a success story with fan clubs from the US to Iceland.

Numerous national and international publications of books followed as well as a voluminous opus of wide variety showing his extraordinary versatility as an artist, drawer, painter, illustrator, and designer.

In the 80’s Ryba and his family moved to the countryside into a former monastery situated in the heights of the Black Forest where he lived and worked to the end of his life. There he discovered his love of nature profession-wise finding expression in „Farmer Hubert“, a set of children´s books with millions of copies published.

There was always an equally significant, very serious but by far less known facet in his work coexisting with his cartoonist-satirical side: almost classical painting, the artistic initiative, and tuition of social and socio-political projects. So, for 20 years he was the artist mentoring the Roman Academy „Academia pro mundo uno“ campaigning worldwide in concerts with classical music and in master courses for the reconciliation of political and religious contrasts.

Working as a lecturer at various art academies his dogmatic approach was both training technical skills and the critical perception of the world emphasizing autonomy. However, there was and there always will be a touch of humor and satire in all his work. This has its origin in Ryba´s way of seeing man as a very kind but very incomplete being.

Michael Ryba died at the age of 66 on the 5th of February 2014 in a car accident in Germany.His last cartoon puzzle for Heye was: The Pig in Art

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