Beyond Chrysalis

Leaving my chrysalis behind. 2007 meant a creative break to me. Hold all activities for a moment. Take a breath. Look around. And, well. I met a man, right after Polyamournesia, and he quite positively rocked my life (sometimes I really think I paint ahead, and then my life just follows: Polyamournesia, Where do you start?).

Anyway. I spent the year traveling, knowing each other, and pondering over some very basic questions like Art or Luxury, Art and Kitsch, Art and Money.

2008 brings me answers: artistic ones (What is Art?), feminist ones (A new Lilith: about letting go) and profound ones: I started a very daring project, a contemporary approach to the I Ging. The new web site 8gua.de is growing (so far German only, sorry).

Besides all that I'm back to painting (in oil, just like years ago & I love it!), in an overall feel similar to 1996, on Hispaniola when I painted non-hurried works in abstinence from the art market.

   

   

Dreams of a Revolutionary Mind

2006 was very productive and creative for me, with human love as its core subject. Very early that year I wrote: "Perhaps one must be actually a REVOLUTIONARY to believe in love in this traumatized society... Now I would like to describe a movement, the slow motion from fear to love, from collective trauma to the far felt country. I want to describe how love slowly triumphs..."
And that's what I did.

Koan

"TU MI TU Y YO TU TU" Out of the void all of a sudden I had this wordplay in my head, a kind of personal Koan. It sounds like an exotic mantra, but actually it is Spanish: "You: my you. And me: your you." More...

Letter to my Lover

Word - Drawing - Painting: on the boundary between intellect and feeling. More

Gaviota

The fictional lover answers... more...

Insulaner

Gauguin went to the South Seas, in search of the ideal human being. For many years, I also lived on an island, Hispaniola, perhaps for similar reasons... more...

Where do you start?

Yes, where do you start to separate the presence from the past, how do you deal with all those things you thought would last... more...

Polyamournesia

A densely woven web of love that encircles me, multicolored, permanently changing, in one word: alive. A beautiful vision... and else? More...

   

More Work: Painting, Installation and Text

• "Verstecken": an experiment between finding and seeking, and the reception mechanisms of abstract painting.
• "From the Sunny Islands" (2006): The antipole to "From the Deep Blue", that drowned whaler, do you remember?
• "Tuscan Landscape": large-scale ink drawings on paper & me@work on a movie...
• "Watergarden": Two almost identical paintings, Watergarden/Fertil and Watergarden/Infertil...
• "Velorito": Instruction for a "little ritual of grieving"
• Why are People Interested in Art? Or: is it objectionable to buy the red painting because it suits the sofa?
• "Homage to..." Usually artists present "finished" works to their audience, sometimes with no traces at all of the preceding creative process. The art work thus appears to be detached, disconnected from the web of thoughts and feelings, the very matrix that brought it into existence. I conceived Homage to... as a joint installation project of various artists that are allowing insights into an artist's creative process and thus makes the thought processes behind artwork tangible.
  In the context of Homage to... I also published a text about "Inspiration in Art"

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