Breaking the Pattern
Further development and self-optimization. Everyone is optimizing. Money and technical development enable ever more perfect surfaces. Art as wallpaper.
I question psychological behavior patterns in a humorous way and want to encourage people to think about and question them.
The continuous artistic examination of patterns and repetitions are continually reflected in my way of working. This discussion is repeatedly accompanied by series of drawings and independent cycles.
Kookery Hansa
The Hansa Kookery is an industrial monument in Dortmund-Huckarde. A tour of the former factory site inspired a series of large and medium format drawings.
READING DIRECTION
The reading direction series refers to the imprints and perceptual structures that shape and condition us. Here, the layering of different reading directions creates a new meaning and flatness.
Homage
Above all, all references that are given within the framework of an artistic work and highlight someone to whom the artist owes particular inspiration for his work are seen as homage. (...)
A few drawings were created on the topic, here is a small selection, homages with references to visual artists from different genres of drawing and sculpture such as Franz Erhard Walther, Erwin Wurm, Ceal Floyer, Jorinde Voigt. The series is continually evolving.
BOXES
The series of characters Boxes refers to the plural of the English name for a thing called box. (Definition according to wikipedia: Boxes: 1. a Container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid.
2. an area on a page that is to be filled in or that contains separate printed matter(…) put in or provide with a box. “Each peace is boxed with a certificate of authenticity”
The works in the series were created in this thought experiment.
on air
The series on air plays with the disappearing communication medium of the postcard. Colorful image and word fragments populate the pictorial space and continually constitute new pictorial realities.
Nail Polish Drawings
The “Nail Polish Drawings” series was created during the pandemic and the associated restrictions on going out and contact.
I ran out of painting materials, so I started working with cosmetic products found in the household, especially nail polish.
The series is thematically determined by the examination of auditory news programs and their content. The theme of death and transience is therefore immanent in the series.
SPACE FRAGMENTS
The series “Space Fragments” plays with the elements of technical reproduction and AI-generated reality worlds on the one hand and the human use of working time as a painting medium on the other.
We all pass through multiple architectural constructions of reality over the course of our lives. We all go through it with our lifetime. In this series, life becomes a comprehensible structure.
UNÄRSYSTEM
The Ünärsystem series continuously accompanies all of my serial works. It began with the discussion of value and time value as well as work performance and lifespan. The series has become a living being and now waves and pulsates through various series that are continually dedicated to new questions.
„Das Unärsystem, umgangssprachlich Bierdeckelnotation genannt, ist ein Additionssystem, das nur ein Symbol mit der Wertigkeit 1 besitzt. Damit kann man jede natürliche Zahl einfach als eine Menge solcher Symbole hinschreiben.“ (Quelle Wikipedia)
wALLPAPERDRAWINGs
The Wallpaperdrawings series deals with the critical questioning of the product art. Art as wallpaper. For this I took it quite literally and worked on wallpaper.
What remains is the conflict between man and machine. The examination of human perception patterns and their new construction is also recognizable.