December 2023

Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990s"Schmidts Traum"—a play with Escher elements and centered on Schmidt/Morissey, who at this time was still the singer of the British independent band "The Smiths". A not continuous metamorphosis with birds and rays, ancient Greek bull leapers, an ancient Egyptian procession, which goes over into a movement abstraction, before the metamorphosis is interrupted, which then goes on into a tangle of lobsters, helmeted ancient Greek heads and interlocking abstract fragments, before it goes over into an ordered...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984My very first ink drawing (August 1982). It is not only in this work that the likeness of David Bowie can be found as a representative of a person depicted. Needless to say, I am a fan of this artist's music and androgynous charisma.Ever since I first read George Orwell's "1984" when I was at school, the subject of the surveillance state and thought police has haunted my mind.“The 2nd Me” depicts Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith in his fully surveilled...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984 "Tribute to Roy Lichtenstein" belongs to a short series of images about females. It is the first in this series.   The title of the drawing may not be quite correct in describing the work. To be precise, it is not only Roy Lichtenstein who is being honored here, but the name Roy Lichtenstein stands for Pop Art, for the entire art movement. Besides Roy Lichtenstein, artists like Andy Warhol, Patrick Caulfield, Lucio del Pezzo, Richard Lindner...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990s "French Vacation" stands for a wonderful time in the north of Brittany, for an uninhibited, athmospheric vacation home, for impressive sunrises and sunsets at the sea, for seafood specialties and moving encounters. For more than a decade, Brittany was a destination for summer vacations, and it is a reminder of happy times. The work was also created there and is more than just a memory. 


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984The picture emerges under the impression of the Cold War, the nuclear armament of the major powers despite the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NATO maneuver “Able Archer”, which simulated nuclear war in 1983 and led to the Soviet Union fearing a nuclear first strike, the American invasion of Grenada under Ronald Reagan in the same year and many other worrying events worldwide. The question is when the dams will break, when frightening ideas...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984 [No] fairytale from Arabian nights. It's a[n] [un]realistic meeting on German ground. The director of the Technical Museum in Munich has engaged two celebreties of the fictional reading world for advertising purposes. A great thing and almost a double premiere: it is the first time that cukltural management and the two meet and Aladdin and Alice also meet for the first time. Both stars (adults meanwhile) do their advertising job with an inborn faithfulness.    In...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984Walking through the Parisian museums Laocoon notices a work from Patrick Caulfield—"Girl on the terrace". The girl fascinates him at once. Phantasies and dreams unfold before his eyes and engrave deep in his mind. Laocoon wants to capture this moment an a naive portrait of himself contemplating a picture emerges. This work assembles fragments from various images and ideas against a black background symbolizing the night and the dreams—in other...


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984"Cube Ex Ex 1" ist the first work of a series of drawings dealing with cubic forms.Basically not more than a gimmick with intersecting straight lines to find out what visual effects can be achieved. The seemingly monotonous, boring task of filling in the space in between turns out to be a fulfilling activity in that it takes on a contemplative character. The work can therefore also be seen as a kind of mandala.


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984 "Cube Ex Ex 3" ist the third work of a series of drawings dealing with cubic forms. Not surprising, the same applies here as with "Cube Ex Ex 1", with the slight difference that there is a thematic background now: hence the subtitle 'Moth Cage'.   The cube embodies a cage that denies generations of moths access to the outside world and they can only move around inside the cube—"compressed motion".  


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Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990sAccompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984Spirit • soul • darkness; naught; confusion; insanity • vision; motion Females and males and I'm thinking of women and I'm a man. Am I man, am I male as a woman is female? Women's bodies, emotions in drawers; down from the leg up to the breast; heads ain't more than a black shape. Am I way to narrow-minded? No, it's not me who's unable to think out of the box. It's the narrow-minded male in me. Who am I if I'm not male? Aint't man more than a face,...


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