Skins - acrylic paintings on collages - part 1

Skins

Skins are  monochromatic paintings in acrylic on various geometrically ordered collages, which consist of multiple sheets of letter-size paper.

Skins grow out of papers called “time-sheets”, which are unwanted drawings, paintings, prints, sketches, notes, flyers, form-letters, texts, everything ready to be torn up and thrown away, or anything considered not being a “finished” art-piece in the 8,5 x 11 inches paper format. These “time-sheets” end up in various “recycle stacks” spanning over a long period of time. The joining of the single “time-sheets” (most of them printed, or worked on from both sides) is very intuitive, so the backsides are accidental fusions of various documents of time, preserving the provisional quality of a stack of used paper, while still displaying all personal content from a time-span of about twenty years.  Through the gluing and multilayered painting processes the single sheets meld together into smooth, wavy and wrinkly, monochrome light-fields, revealing faint indications of their geometrical structure.

Skins are shielded personal landscapes, uneven, almost aged surfaces that conceal private information, transcending into empty quietness; meaning- and timeless abstract spaces of open interpretation. They are  silent reminders of erased content, voids of no incident encouraging a state of contemplative meditation in the viewer.

   Sk-W/Y/R 1, acrylic on collage, 28"x38,5", 2013

    Sk-W/Y/R 2, acrylic on collage, 28"x38,5", 2013

    Sk-W/Y/R 3, acrylic on collage, 28"x38,5", 2013

Skins - acrylic paintings on collages - part 2

 Sk-PaBl 2, acrylic on collage, 68"x44", 2013

 Sk-Bk, acrylic on collage, 69"x44", 2013

 Sk-PaBl 1, acrylic on collage, 69"x47", 2013

 Sk-PaP, acrylic on collage, 69"x47", 2013

 Sk-W/Bl 2, acrylic on collage, 69"x45", 2013

 Sk-W/Bl 1, acrylic on collage, 69"x45", 2013

 Sk-Cu, acrylic on collage, 70"x42", 2013

 Sk-TgP, acrylic on collage, 70"x34", 2013

Sk-PaBl 3, acrylic on collage, 75"x34", 2013

 Sk-Gr, acrylic on collage, 74"x 32", 2013

selected back sides 

Sk-Cu- Back, acrylic on collage, 70"x42", 2013

Sk-Bk- Back, acrylic on collage, 69"x44", 2013

  Sk-PaBl 2-Back, acrylic on collage, 68"x44", 2013

Workstation Sisyphus - an office for unsolvable problems project

News from The office for unsolvable problems

Workstation Sisyphus

variations 2013

Workstation Sisyphus is a mixed media room installation in variable dimensions, consisting of laptop computer(s) (showing drawings and caricatures of the human folly as slide shows) as well as cushion(s), clothes, shoes, books, stones, flowers etc. and “time sheets”, which are unwanted drawings, paintings, prints, sketches, notes, flyers, form-letters, texts, everything ready to be torn up and thrown away, or anything considered not being a “finished” art-piece in the 8,5 x 11 inches paper format; anything that could be recycled, reused, reworked and re-contextualized.

Workstation Sisyphus explores the eternal concept of up hill rock-pushing as a symbol for the absurdity of human life. The “time sheets” used for this project symbolize the creative process as a repetitive doing, a constant up and down to make something meaningful; art as means of finding meaning within meaninglessness.

more projects from the office for unsolvable problems
und hier zum amt fuer unloesbare probleme

Possible Devices

wrapped bottle objects

Letter-size on stilts

Fresszeichnung einer Weinbergschnecke

On Old Path

On Old Path (Auf alten Pfaden ) is a photo documentation of the evolving, ephemeral NIESATT outdoors drawing/installation/performance - a conceptual temporary interactions with nature project, where action and object become one. The project explores ancient trails and fictional ancient trails, as well as the idea of the long gone and still there, the path and passing - touching aspects of walking patterns, transitions, migrations and repetitions.

On Old Path is a tribute to Bashō's "The narrow road to the deep north" in which he suggests that "every day is a journey, and the journey itself home."

While being on an On Old Path bitten and stung by bugs and mosquitoes, performing to the various sounds of birds and the elements, my mind circles around Richard Long's a line made by walking, Duerer's Reisen, also Dieter Roth's garden sculpture, Zhuangzi's philosophy, Noah Purifoy's outdoor projects and many others that might come up in a stream of thought.

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 On Old Path,  letter-size paper in nature @ various locations in south-west Germany

After the Rain

Clothes line, peg and white letter-size paper shaped by wind and rain. From the evolving NIESATT action-object-space-time ephemeral realities project.

gardening as art - Kraichgau - spring 2013

white letter-size paper partially buried -
a blur between action and object.

gardening as art form

Blatt um Blatt - Mohn, Erdbeeren und Brache

looking at gardening as an art form

Saat und Brache

gardening as art form

fallow order

gardening as art form

Blattsalat und Brache - leave lettuce and fallow