Art-Projects about people in the public space instead of art “in” the public space.
This set of oil paintings originated 2006, 2007 and 2017 shows people on public places and is up to date as never before! Banker side by side with unemployed, foreigners walking alongside German girls, homosexuals with baby buggy, father and daughter go hand in hand in times of pedophilia … The pictures show how the public …
Around Public Spaces 1 – 5; 2006; Oil on Canvas 548 * 130 cm This is a pentaptychon of people on public places dated from 2006. Now shown as a panorama so you can view it more easily – just click on it. I am painting public spaces, such as in the series “Around Public …
We are moving “from an art in public space to an art about the public space.” Dr. Brigitte Franzen, Director of the Ludwig Forums für internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany, in Kunstforum Internationl, December 2011. I am painting public spaces, such as in the series “Around Public Spaces” – is there a better figurative approach to …
This series shows eight visitors of documenta XII – eight of 754.301. They are shown in life-size and put in relation to all visitors.
These canvases are driven by the painting process and the preoccupation with painting materials. The surroundings are outdoors and indoors which forced attention to painting the shadows of the persons. The first pictures that show human beings and their encounters result from the years 2003 to 2005. The ambient architecture still was an influential subject. …
