FRAGMENTS GET A NEW CODE

„The beauty in art is always true,
but the truth is not always pretty“.
Ernst Rietschel

In my artistic work I am talking about the ongoing change, connection and communication between the inner and outer worlds, and about the inevitable bond between art and human life in general. I feel drawn to the tension between opposites, the grey areas between black and white, the confusion and contemplation, stereotypes and prejudice.

Décollages - ripped or lacerated posters - are part of everyday aesthetics. In their wildness, rejection can be deciphered - a manifestation of the spontaneous and direct expression. Artists like Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé recognized the quality of this un-conventional form of art. I try to transform this method into our contemporary digital age. I‘m currently working on a series of digital décollage and digital overpaintings titled
„covert and discovered history“.

Here I merge digitalized, famous single works of art history with my own photographs of anonymous, collective decollages, tags and urban, fragmented snapshots. In the melting pot of bits and bytes I liquefy the contrasting codes and add them together to a new whole.

On the one hand you have the art historical artifacts of high culture from the past eras and on the other hand the wild, unbridled, credible expression, the codes, the inscriptions of the current visual grammar.

My aim is to marry those two antithetical approaches to art in my work and so create something utterly new.

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