Artworks

Painting as a data carrier of the present.

In an era of digital amnesia, I use oil paint—a slow, physically persistent substance—to illuminate the fractures in the fabric of the 21st century.

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43 artworks found

Figurative Painting as an Interstice

The figure is the most direct confrontation with what we are: bodies in a world that increasingly treats bodies as data points. My work puts oil on canvas. Slow. Physical. Non-reproducible. No Ctrl+Z.

Themes and Series

The works revolve around power and its masks. The War Machine dissects the banality of industrial violence. Big Money Bauta shows the Venetian mask as a cipher for greed—or privacy, depending on the bank balance. The series Homo Sapiens asks more soberly: What remains of us when ideology is stripped away?

Portraits such as Mr. Henry Ford or Machiavelli are investigations. Ford, publisher of the antisemitic Dearborn Independent, is still traded today as an icon of entrepreneurial innovation. Machiavelli, often cited by the powerful, was himself penniless and dependent. My portraits scan faces in which history has sedimented. Digital Shamans (since 2023) examines archaic coping strategies for a present demanding different rituals.

Methodology

Oil is the counterpart to the body: buttery, durable, slow. The stroke varies—nervous and searching, powerful and expressive, depending on the rapport between the painting and myself. Open areas where the canvas shows through are skin beneath the plaster: points where another brushstroke would not perfect the painting, but kill it. Perfection is an illusion. I leave that to the machines.

Location

My works are created at B.L.O. Ateliers, Berlin-Lichtenberg. Studio visits by appointment

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