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!A Unifying Language of the Visual!
Alter Schlachthof in Eupen
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!FUTURE FOSSILS!
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!A UNIFYING LANGUAGE OF THE VISUAL!

​I am very glad to announce that I, together with the wonderful artist Chen Xiaodan and dear friend, will be exhibiting in the beautifully renovated abattoir in Eupen/Belgium. 
            Opening on the 31st of July 2021 
 Eupen has a vibrant artistic community at its centre and is worth a visit https://www.alter-schlachthof.be!

...and many thanks to Miriam Elebe (@miriam_elebe), who made this exhibition possible!
              

​Painting: Oil on canvas 150x200cm 2020
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  ​!DEMOLITION!

I was surprised und then very glad to have been invited to partake in the Sino-German group exhibitionat the Hismoon Gallery in Tai Cang opening 5th of September 2021





Painting: Oil on raw linen 110x110cm 2020 ​
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THE BIRTH PLACE OF DIONYSOS, THE GOD OF WINE...


This series of large format paintings depicts greek landscapes, landscapes that are steeped in ancient mythology. that is why this work is actually about the structure of the human mind that is hard wired to stories and story telling and is not about landscapes. stories try to illuminate and explain the phenomena of nature, like droughts, floods, storms, but also death and love. stories, that within time, turn into mythology and then often into religion. gods are born and temples are built and so cultures and nations develop and battles are fought. in the cold light of day, stories and the subsequent emerging religions are man made and therefore artificial realities which the human being is prepared to defend to the death.
 
!TRANSIT!
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Building a book! We had a great opening for our project 'TRANSIT‘. Together with Brigitte Stüwe we constructed 30 kind of 'scrap books' about a journey within a town and a train journey all the way to China and one in the confines of our imagination, always starting from our local train station which is being restored and will be handed to the citizens of Dorsten 2022. The mayor attended the opening and received the first edition of our artist’s book. The rest were given away to the citizens of Dorsten. It was heart warming to see them obviously happy to clutch and take home one of our books.
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!​LUXURIA! 
My show in 2019 with the title 'SIEBEN!' refers to the 7 deadly sins that I portrayed and exhibited in the chapel Maria Magdalena. Each painting has the name of one of the sins and is based on a historic artwork. In the case of LUXURIA it refers to the the work of Hans Holbein 'The Ambassadors'. In the bottom half of both paintings are a number of objects that represent knowledge and power. Especially the distorted scull in the Holbein painting is fascinating and playful, whereas the huge pre-Columbian mask in my painting is a symbol of strength and war. The mathematical instruments as well as the books are all placed beneath LUXURIA whereas in the Holbein painting the objects frame the ambassadors who pose rather stiffly. LUXURIA on the other hand is completely relaxed and superior.
Part of a Portuguese collection.


Painting: Oil on raw canvas 270x200cm 2019
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!ART ASSOCIATION VIRTUELL VISUELL!

In my capacity as chair and organizer (I'm not so keen on the word 'curator') of the art association Virtuell Visuell l have the privilege of showing fabulous art within the confines of a huge machine hall on a discontinued colliery 'Zeche Fürst Leopold'.   
The place is more than 100 years old and has been beautifully conserved, with all its patina in place. 
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!​A HALLUCINOGENIC TOPOGRAPHIE!
A couple of years ago I decided to embark on another try at reading Dante's 'Divine Comedy'.
Suffice it to say that I failed to finish it again. However, I have collected enough material to start on a series of 9+1 paintings depicting various forms of rings. Dantes description of his inferno is so complicated, bizarre and exquisite that I have a suspicion there were some mushrooms involved, hence the title of the series.
A contemporary reference to Dante's inferno is a wonderful essay by Durs Grünbein 'Galileo vermisst Dantes Hölle'. Born 1265, Dante had whole artistic generations trying to reconstruct his inferno according to his writings, among others the great Sandro Botticelli. None of their depictions are convincing, and proves that writing is an art in itself and cannot be replicated one to one.
That is why I won't be painting his hell, but 9+1 rings of my own choosing painted on printed linen of all sorts of mathematical and other scientific diagrams. Please go to PROJECTS in the menu to find out more....

​Painting: Acrylic and oil on printed canvas 109x80cm 2020