has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
The works are made by creating wood forms and painting images on paper, then mounting the images and paper patterns onto the surface. The shapes form angles and curves that sometimes generate the meaning of the piece. On some works, the image is already in mind, and the wood form is made for its purpose.
Trophies examines man’s fixation with defeating and/or overpowering nature in order to achieve a sense of strength. Using objects that are associated with masculinity, my aim is to produce an alternative to a common and naturally destructive form of trophy-ism; the taxidermy head. By working with elements that still bare the significance of what it means to “be a man”, I can shift the elemental focus from destruction, towards empowerment gained through construction, strategy, and creation.
the exhibition in collaboration with the wallraf-richartz-museum & fondation corboud, köln shown in april/may 2008 in berlin, potsdamer platz photographed portraits from paintings out of the 19th century. details from paintings from friedrich von amerling, louis ammy blanc, carl begas d.ä., paul hippolyte delaroche, anselm friedrich feuerbach, ferdinand hodler, wilhelm leibl and simon meister.
