Miniposter-miscellaneous

“BoCHUM” is ultimately a tribute to my adopted home town. Beginning with the lyrics of Herbert Grönemeyer's 1984 cult song “Bochum”, a concise list of events and places that are more than worth visiting follows and ends with an appreciation of the city and its people before the text repeats itself in the opposite direction. The red outline of the city and the stylized miner 'reinforce' the theme and the final syllable 'chum' (British English) emphasized in the title, which in German colloquially means something like 'Kumpel', 'Spezi' or 'Kamerad' (equivalent to the American...


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This is not an advertisement for IT devices. Rather, it is a representation of my “studio”—with its fixed and mobile components: Desktop PC, DIN-A3 color laser printer for final prints, DIN-A4 inkjet printer for drafts, laptop and DIN-A4 thermal printer for 'on the go'. Where in my early days it was all about ink and pencil, ruler and paper, digitalization has arrived and is now my “playground.”


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The social network "X" stands, since it is controlled by Elon Musk, for a (perhaps not quite so) new, twisted understanding of truth, freedom of opinion and speech, and 'facts'. Ultimately, it serves the power and influence interests of self-important (super)rich people in order to create a right-wing populist pseudo-life-world, which is dominated by conspiracy theories and pervaded by the thinking of evangelical fanatics... oh, I get sick at the thought...[A] The combination of the background of the picture (the sky) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that...


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Undoubtedly a still life: a wooden bench in the sunlight in the middle of a meadow—were it not for the short text and the bank logos burned into the backrest. In German, both the term 'Bank' and the adjective 'gemein' are used ambiguously. 'Bank' stands for a bench and also for a financial institution. In connection with the logos engraved in the wood, the object 'bench' is transformed into the institution 'bank'. In this work, 'common' is used on the one hand in the sense of ordinary, on the other hand in the sense of indelicate or indecent (business). Thus we see here an ordinary...


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Take a well-known warning sign as a motif, exchange just one letter of the title and the result is interesting/funny, occasionally also meaningful transformations. The starting point for this work is the warning sign “Beware of (the) dog”. So what I did was nothing more than exchange the first letter of the word 'dog' for the letter 'h', which resulted in the first work of the "Beware of (the) ?og" collection.On the one hand, 'hog' refers to the animal ('Schwein' in German), on the other hand, 'hog' is used colloquially to refer to a motorcycle ('Bock' or 'Mühle'). The letter...


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“Global Pressure" at first glance, it's about the international press. The international daily newspapers and the lettering “Press” seem to indicate this. Daily newspapers and the press present and symbolize a worldwide event, which only comes to the fore by adding the surname of the Scottish singer and guitarist Midge Ure (singer of Ultravox in the 1980s, among others) to the term 'Press'. The highlighted letters 'URE' in the title serve as a reference to the name, but is only helpful if the name is known... “Global Pressure” can be associated with the pressure of financial...


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"Awesome Thing"—the embedding of the earth from a space perspective in the context of a star in the process of formation generates the theme of this work. By integrating the image of the earth into the sequence of letters 'b-d-a-y' and placing it visually in the foreground, the appreciation of a past elementary event is created. A birth-day/b-earth-day (bˈɜːθde͡ɪ) is an awesome thing.The background of the mini poster, as well as the earth, is represented by freely available images from the worldwide web. As in the various series, this single work explores the underlying...


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"Treetop & the Crow-n" shows a view of the sky behind a top of a tree. Tree' plus 'crown' form the German word for the English 'treetop'—'Baumkrone', also the English word 'crown' itself  refers to a treetop in botanical usage. Tree and sky are the habitat of the (zoological) crow, which in turn is part of the word 'crown'. The crown floating above the crow's head is meant to represent the bird's outstanding position in the animal kingdom. Their intelligence, their ability to use tools, to solve problems and to communicate, their life in complex social structures and their...


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The work describes an aspect of thinking about ageing, or more precisely about my own ageing, and can in a way be understood as a self-portrait. In my hands, the AI-supported smartphone—gateway to the world and tool that has replaced the camera; in front of the setting sun, the symbol for an Ai chip—representing the battery of the various computers in my study. The sunset is not to be understood as the end (of the world), but rather as a time for the beginning of my creative phases.The photograph is the North Sea sky near Bremerhaven, and the work is, in the broadest sense,...


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"Sadness of Loss" is an emotional state during a visit to C's grave. The gravestone was taken from a grave photograph, edited and assembled to form a mural as the background for work. [A] The combination of the background of the picture (the sky) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus "calls up a second theme". [B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced but differently spelled word combination, as well as through a differently pronounced but equally spelled...


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