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"Thinking"—“The Sound of Silence” will inevitably, I think, remind the older ones among us of the song by Simon & Garfunkel from the 1960s. For the younger ones, it will undoubtedly be one of the now countless remixes, such as the one by 'Disturbed'. With “The Sound of Silence”, Paul Simon has formulated a wonderful paradox and, detached from the meaning of the phrase in the song and from the actual content of the song, this phrase is for me an adequate description of thinking. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet...


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The title of the work, "Ungereimtes" (without rhyme), is ambiguous. On the one hand the word is used in the sense of 'forming no rhyme', on the other hand it stands for something that 'makes no right sense, is confused'. "Ungereimtes" deals with the meaning of the pictorial in our language (spoken and written) and in our thinking. We know that language and thought are connected in many ways, regardless of the fact that in certain contexts thought may be possible without the use of language. The question remains whether thinking in these contexts is possible without images - I do not think...


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The basis of phonemic pictures is—how could it be otherwise—the international phonetic alphabet 'IPA'. The elongated 'I' ends in a stylized foundation outline. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out. Das Fundament IPA Internationales phonetisches  Alphabet the foundationIPAinternational phonetic alphabet


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"v.e.r.s. poster"—the abbreviation corresponds to the German word for ‘verse’. v.e.r.s. is formed from the initial letters of the German terms for ‘(imagine’, ‘recognize’, ‘talk’ and ‘ponder’ listed after the title. The work is the first of a sequence of ten pictures and functions as an introduction to the complete work. The original ten ultimately became twelve pictures: three times four pictures each in picture frames in a bigger frame, forming a triptych. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know...


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Put simply, “Inner monologue”, also one of the early phonemic pictures, deals with the subject of ‘talking to oneself silently’. Announcements to oneself are nothing unusual, it does not necessarily have to be a dialog. The German term for announcements contains the character sequence 'laut', which—understood as a noun—represents the linguistic designation for a sound ('phoneme'). As an adjective, however, 'laut' is to be understood as 'loud', a nice contradiction in the context of laudless talking to oneself. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with...


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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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