„That wouldn’t have been necessary.“
2020 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
If Christianity wouldn’t be a world religion, but the doctrine of a small, insignificant cult, one would probably laugh about it: A God who sacrifices himself (in the shape of his son) in order to tame his own wrath. And who, in all his omnipotence, is apparently unable to manage this in any other way.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Decadência moral
2019 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
In Brazil, Christian fundamentalists add up to thirty percent of the population. About two thirds of them voted for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 runoff ballot. Bolsonaro promised, among other things, to fight corruption, but also other kinds of “moral decay”, like alcohol consumption, homosexuality and alleged “precocious sexualisation” in schools. On the other hand, he plans the “complete economic development” of the Amazon rainforest, which will inevitably lead to further deforestation and - even violent - displacement of the indigenous population.
The dialogue between the two lumberjacks says:
“What are we actually doing here?”
“We’re fighting moral decay.”
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Transhumanism
2019 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
It is well known that humans have an open cooling system, which means that they drink and sweat. So what progress would it be for mankind if people could be equipped with a closed radiator system, as we know it from the automobile: The odour nuisance in public transport would be reduced to a minimum and vast amounts of water could be saved, because people would shower very rarely, to name only a few advantages. (Irony off)
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Girls just want to have fun (dedicated to Rana Ahmad)
2018 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
Did Cindy Lauper and Robert Hazard ever think of religious fundamentalism when they wrote these lines? Almost 30 years after the song has been written, this connection seems to be obvious. Rana Ahmad is the author of the book „Frauen dürfen hier nicht träumen“ (Women must not dream here), in which she describes her path from a strictly religious educated woman to an atheist, who finally fled her homeland Saudi Arabia and now lives in Germany.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Thoughts and Prayers
2018 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
After every incident with firearms in the US, those politicians who are in favor of maintaining liberal gun laws assure that “their thoughts and prayers”; are with the victims‘ relatives. Here we hear this phrase from Dana Loesch, the spokeswoman of the National Rifle Association.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Der Tag, an dem die Erde stillstand
(The day the earth stood still)
2018 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
In a 1980s schoolbook of physics, a question concerning the principle of linear momentum was: „On earth, thousands of locomotives suddenly set off for the east. How does this affect the rotation of the earth?“
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Stairway to Heaven
2018 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
A big topic in christian fundamentalist circles in the 1980s was the so-called „backward masking“, i. e. secret messages recorded backwards on records, preferably by hard rock and heavy metal bands which were said to influence the subconscious. Larry Norman, the blonde guy in the picture and a veteran of christian rock music, said at one of his concerts about his fellow believers who thought that this was true: „They say: If you play ‚Stairway to Heaven‘ backwards, the devil speaks to you! Well ... if you play ‚Stairway to Heaven‘ backwards, you hear ‚Dösmögsnös smörebröd‘ ... Doesn’t sound like the devil, sounds like Swedish.“ Note Jimmy Page’s mirror-inverted turntable specially designed to listen to these hidden messages.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
One way Ticket
2018 · 2-colour silkscreen print on 300 g Munken Polar hochweiß · 40 x 30 cm · Edition of 50
This silkscreen print is available for Euro 96,00 + shipping. In case of interest, please mail to: konzt@konzt.com
In a video from the 1950s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ClO0uPDxE), a christian preacher talks about the dangers coming from rock ‘n‘ roll music. At the end of his lecture, he says: „Brothers and sisters, I’m talking about lust of the flesh (...) If we give in to the lust of the flesh, brothers and sisters, you might as well go down to the Greyhound bus station and buy you a one way ticket straight to hell.“
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
„That wouldn’t have been necessary.“
2020 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
If Christianity wouldn’t be a world religion, but the doctrine of a small, insignificant cult, one would probably laugh about it: A God who sacrifices himself (in the shape of his son) in order to tame his own wrath. And who, in all his omnipotence, is apparently unable to manage this in any other way.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Decadência moral
2019 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
In Brazil, Christian fundamentalists add up to thirty percent of the population. About two thirds of them voted for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 runoff ballot. Bolsonaro promised, among other things, to fight corruption, but also other kinds of “moral decay”, like alcohol consumption, homosexuality and alleged “precocious sexualisation” in schools. On the other hand, he plans the “complete economic development” of the Amazon rainforest, which will inevitably lead to further deforestation and - even violent - displacement of the indigenous population.
The dialogue between the two lumberjacks says:
“What are we actually doing here?”
“We’re fighting moral decay.”
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Transhumanism
2019 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
It is well known that humans have an open cooling system, which means that they drink and sweat. So what progress would it be for mankind if people could be equipped with a closed radiator system, as we know it from the automobile: The odour nuisance in public transport would be reduced to a minimum and vast amounts of water could be saved, because people would shower very rarely, to name only a few advantages. (Irony off)
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Girls just want to have fun (dedicated to Rana Ahmad)
2018 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
Did Cindy Lauper and Robert Hazard ever think of religious fundamentalism when they wrote these lines? Almost 30 years after the song has been written, this connection seems to be obvious. Rana Ahmad is the author of the book „Frauen dürfen hier nicht träumen“ (Women must not dream here), in which she describes her path from a strictly religious educated woman to an atheist, who finally fled her homeland Saudi Arabia and now lives in Germany.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Thoughts and Prayers
2018 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
After every incident with firearms in the US, those politicians who are in favor of maintaining liberal gun laws assure that “their thoughts and prayers”; are with the victims‘ relatives. Here we hear this phrase from Dana Loesch, the spokeswoman of the National Rifle Association.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Der Tag, an dem die Erde stillstand
(The day the earth stood still)
2018 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
In a 1980s schoolbook of physics, a question concerning the principle of linear momentum was: „On earth, thousands of locomotives suddenly set off for the east. How does this affect the rotation of the earth?“
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
Stairway to Heaven
2018 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
A big topic in christian fundamentalist circles in the 1980s was the so-called „backward masking“, i. e. secret messages recorded backwards on records, preferably by hard rock and heavy metal bands which were said to influence the subconscious. Larry Norman, the blonde guy in the picture and a veteran of christian rock music, said at one of his concerts about his fellow believers who thought that this was true: „They say: If you play ‚Stairway to Heaven‘ backwards, the devil speaks to you! Well ... if you play ‚Stairway to Heaven‘ backwards, you hear ‚Dösmögsnös smörebröd‘ ... Doesn’t sound like the devil, sounds like Swedish.“ Note Jimmy Page’s mirror-inverted turntable specially designed to listen to these hidden messages.
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
One way Ticket
2018 · Acrylic on Canvas · 140 x 75 cm
In a video from the 1950s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ClO0uPDxE), a christian preacher talks about the dangers coming from rock ‘n‘ roll music. At the end of his lecture, he says: „Brothers and sisters, I’m talking about lust of the flesh (...) If we give in to the lust of the flesh, brothers and sisters, you might as well go down to the Greyhound bus station and buy you a one way ticket straight to hell.“
The series „To be continued“ picks up aphorisms from various sources and kicks them up a notch. The works thus created are reminiscent of cartoons, as they were printed in daily newspapers – many of them as serials. Their meaning cannot be clearly deciphered in the first instance. Nevertheless, all content is based on existing background stories or ideas, not on arbitrary associations.
True Colours XII (B. J.)
2019/20 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours XI (J. B.)
2018 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours X (M. S.)
2018 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours IX (J. K.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours VIII (N. F.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours VII (M. L. P.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours VI (B. N.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours V (V. O.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours IV (D. T.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours III (R. T. E.)
2017 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours II (F. P.)
2016/17 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
True Colours I (N. H.)
2016 · Mixed Media (toys, acrylic paint, plywood) · 84 x 120 cm
The series „Wahre Gesichter – True Colours“ deals with the phenomenon of political populism in its very own way. Although a critical view towards this phenomenon is clearly perceptible in the works, they leave a wide variety of interpretations and associations
Wahre Gesichter – True Colours
Video Documentation 1
Wahre Gesichter – True Colours
Video Documentation 2
Wahre Gesichter – True Colours
Video Documentation 3
Wahre Gesichter – True Colours
Video Documentation 4
The boat is jammed I (exhibition view)
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
The boat is jammed I
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
The boat is jammed I (detail)
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
The boat is jammed I (detail)
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
The boat is jammed I (detail)
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
The boat is jammed I (detail)
2014/15 · Mixed Media (toys, filler, enamel paint, reflecting foil) · 110 x 26 x 31 cm
Ford with us I (feretory)
2014 · Mixed Media including original spark plug for FORD Model T · 19 x 19 x 31 cm
The President made another sign of the T and sat down. The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, »I drink to my annihilation,« twelve times quaffed. Then to the accompaniment of the synthetic orchestra the First Solidarity Hymn was sung:
Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one,
Like drops within the Social River,
Oh, make us now together run
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver.
(…)
As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement. The sense of the Coming‘s imminence was like an electric tension in the air. The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence – the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. The President reached out his hand; and suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural Voice spoke from above their heads. Very slowly, »Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,« it said diminishingly and on a descending scale. A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears came into their eyes; their hearts, their bowels seemed to move within them, as though with an independent life. »Ford!« they were melting, »Ford!« dissolved, dissolved.
Aldous Huxley
Brave new World (1932)
Ford with us I (feretory, detail)
2014 · Mixed Media including original spark plug for FORD Model T · 19 x 19 x 31 cm
The President made another sign of the T and sat down. The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, »I drink to my annihilation,« twelve times quaffed. Then to the accompaniment of the synthetic orchestra the First Solidarity Hymn was sung:
Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one,
Like drops within the Social River,
Oh, make us now together run
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver.
(…)
As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement. The sense of the Coming‘s imminence was like an electric tension in the air. The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence – the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. The President reached out his hand; and suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural Voice spoke from above their heads. Very slowly, »Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,« it said diminishingly and on a descending scale. A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears came into their eyes; their hearts, their bowels seemed to move within them, as though with an independent life. »Ford!« they were melting, »Ford!« dissolved, dissolved.
Aldous Huxley
Brave new World (1932)
Ford with us II (stoup)
2015 · Mixed Media · 13 x 21 x 10 cm
The President made another sign of the T and sat down. The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, »I drink to my annihilation,« twelve times quaffed. Then to the accompaniment of the synthetic orchestra the First Solidarity Hymn was sung:
Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one,
Like drops within the Social River,
Oh, make us now together run
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver.
(…)
As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement. The sense of the Coming‘s imminence was like an electric tension in the air. The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence – the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. The President reached out his hand; and suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural Voice spoke from above their heads. Very slowly, »Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,« it said diminishingly and on a descending scale. A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears came into their eyes; their hearts, their bowels seemed to move within them, as though with an independent life. »Ford!« they were melting, »Ford!« dissolved, dissolved.
Aldous Huxley
Brave new World (1932)
Ford with us III (loving cup)
2015 · Mixed Media · 18 x 39 x 18 cm
The President made another sign of the T and sat down. The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, »I drink to my annihilation,« twelve times quaffed. Then to the accompaniment of the synthetic orchestra the First Solidarity Hymn was sung:
Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one,
Like drops within the Social River,
Oh, make us now together run
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver.
(…)
As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement. The sense of the Coming‘s imminence was like an electric tension in the air. The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence – the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. The President reached out his hand; and suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural Voice spoke from above their heads. Very slowly, »Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,« it said diminishingly and on a descending scale. A sensation of warmth radiated thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears came into their eyes; their hearts, their bowels seemed to move within them, as though with an independent life. »Ford!« they were melting, »Ford!« dissolved, dissolved.
Aldous Huxley
Brave new World (1932)
God with us I
2014 · Mixed Media (toy cars, filler, enamel paint, plywood) · 62 x 50 x 6 cm
„More safety – more tidiness – more parking space.“
(election poster, ÖVP Vienna)
God with us I (detail)
2014 · Mixed Media (toy cars, filler, enamel paint, plywood) · 62 x 50 x 6 cm
„More safety – more tidiness – more parking space.“
(election poster, ÖVP Vienna)
God with us II
2014 · Mixed Media (toy cars, filler, enamel paint, plywood) · 42 x 34 x 6 cm
„More safety – more tidiness – more parking space.“
(election poster, ÖVP Vienna)
God with us III
2014 · Mixed Media (toy cars, filler, enamel paint, plywood) · 42 x 34 x 6 cm
„More safety – more tidiness – more parking space.“
(election poster, ÖVP Vienna)
Pilgrim’s Rest II
2015 · Mixed Media (mineral wool, synthetic fibre, metal, enamel paint) · 200 x 60 x 75 cm
Choking Hazard
2013 · Mixed Media (communion candle, box, tag) · 51 x 6 x 6 cm
Jacquot reconstruit
This exhibition project reconstructs the work of Jacques Weinberger (Jacquot), which was completely destroyed in the end of the 1950s by a fire in his studio. The artist who wrongly fell into oblivion carried out an absolutely descret interpretation of Tachism and Informal Painting. The staging encloses 14 well-chosen works as well as a detailed curriculum vitae displayed on a panel.
Jacquot reconstruit
This exhibition project reconstructs the work of Jacques Weinberger (Jacquot), which was completely destroyed in the end of the 1950s by a fire in his studio. The artist who wrongly fell into oblivion carried out an absolutely descret interpretation of Tachism and Informal Painting. The staging encloses 14 well-chosen works as well as a detailed curriculum vitae displayed on a panel.
The blue Ballerina (Mon Chéri)
Reconstruction 2013/14 · acrylic paint on canvas · 180 x 200 cm
Portrait Joseph Pickler I
Reconstruction 2013/14 · gouache on cardboard · 70 x 100 cm
Portrait Kalman M. Kaschtan I
Reconstruction 2013/14 · gouache on cardboard · 70 x 100 cm
Monochrome blue Ballerina III (dedicated to Yves Klein)
Reconstruction 2013/14 · gouache on vat paper · 68 x 98 cm
Jacquot reconstruit
„Jacquot takes a small Japanese toy, a battery-operasted ship or car or something similar, whose special feature is that it turns around as soon as it bumps into an obstacle. He cleverly puts his paintbrush in the rear of the ship, which runs now all over the canvas on the floor and turns every time, as soon as it bumps against the frame. Jacquot carefully watches the hard-working toy.“
Jacquot is a character from Ephraim Kishon‘s play „Pull Out the Plug, the Water is Boiling!“: An artist who paints his pictures by battery-operated toys.
Possibly Jean Tinguelys „Meta-Matics“ or Akira Kanayamas „Remote control paintings“ served Kishon as an example for Jacquots painting manner. But while Kishon with his piece tries to make fun of the contemporary art business and to let its participants stand out as swindlers and charlatans, the works produced with Weinbergers painting manner – regardless of Kishons views – develop an own quality absolutely equal to that of the Informal Painting.
In this exhibition, the fictitious character Jacquot shows up against the extremely conservative world view of his own creator. Thus Jacquot says in a conversation with a studio colleague: „Do you really believe I would not know that this small ship cannot draw at all? That it is only a simple Japanese toy? I know this well enough. But, nevertheless, this toy could be able to scribble something that you, Mister, would never ever manage with your own two hands. Because you depend on your intellect and the ship just doesn’t need to care about this. Do you understand what I mean?“
It can’t be said with firmness how this exhibition is recognized by the single viewer. But nevertheless, one thing is sure: With this staging, Jacquot has survived his own creator.
Originals I
2013 · Mixed Media · 24 x 19 x 10 cm
original (adjective):
1) Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
2) Created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy.
3) Not dependent on other people‘s ideas; inventive or novel
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
Originals II
2013 · Mixed Media · 24 x 19 x 10 cm
original (adjective):
1) Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
2) Created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy.
3) Not dependent on other people‘s ideas; inventive or novel
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
Originals III
2013 · Mixed Media · 37 x 30 x 12 cm
original (adjective):
1) Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
2) Created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy.
3) Not dependent on other people‘s ideas; inventive or novel
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
Originals IV
2013 · Mixed Media · 37 x 30 x 12 cm
original (adjective):
1) Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
2) Created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy.
3) Not dependent on other people‘s ideas; inventive or novel
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
No sense at all I
2013 · Mixed Media · variable dimensions
sense (noun):
1) A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
2) A feeling that something is the case.
2.1) A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something.
3) A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
3.1) A reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4) A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5) Mathematics/Physics: A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
5.1) Genetics: Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
No sense at all II
2013 · Mixed Media · variable dimensions
sense (noun):
1) A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
2) A feeling that something is the case.
2.1) A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something.
3) A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
3.1) A reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4) A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5) Mathematics/Physics: A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
5.1) Genetics: Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
No sense at all III
2013 · Mixed Media · variable dimensions
sense (noun):
1) A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
2) A feeling that something is the case.
2.1) A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something.
3) A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
3.1) A reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4) A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5) Mathematics/Physics: A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
5.1) Genetics: Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
No sense at all IV
2013 · Mixed Media · variable dimensions
sense (noun):
1) A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
2) A feeling that something is the case.
2.1) A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something.
3) A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
3.1) A reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4) A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5) Mathematics/Physics: A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
5.1) Genetics: Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
No sense at all V
2013 · Mixed Media · variable dimensions
sense (noun):
1) A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
2) A feeling that something is the case.
2.1) A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something.
3) A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
3.1) A reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4) A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5) Mathematics/Physics: A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
5.1) Genetics: Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
(Oxford Living Dictionaries)
A tribute to Marcel Duchamp
2012 · Mixed Media (decoration glass, pedestal) · variable dimensions
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) is claimed one of the founders of conceptual art and trailblazer of Dadaism and surrealism. Although his position towards pop art remained ambivalent, he had quite much influence on artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Hamilton or Peter Blake.
His works – especially his Ready-mades, like Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914) and Fountain (1917) – radically questioned the current art concepts of his time.
In 1915, he started one of his main works: „The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even“ (La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même). He considered The Large Glass as a „marriage of spiritual and visual reactions“, as representation and idea at the same time.
A Tribute to Marcel Duchamp now unites these artistic approaches and presents „The Large Glass“ as a Ready-Made.
A tribute to Marcel Duchamp
2012 · Mixed Media (decoration glass, pedestal) · variable dimensions
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) is claimed one of the founders of conceptual art and trailblazer of Dadaism and surrealism. Although his position towards pop art remained ambivalent, he had quite much influence on artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Hamilton or Peter Blake.
His works – especially his Ready-mades, like Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914) and Fountain (1917) – radically questioned the current art concepts of his time.
In 1915, he started one of his main works: „The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even“ (La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même). He considered The Large Glass as a „marriage of spiritual and visual reactions“, as representation and idea at the same time.
A Tribute to Marcel Duchamp now unites these artistic approaches and presents „The Large Glass“ as a Ready-Made.
Sufficient parking space available!
2012/13 · Performance, WUK, Vienna
The performance „Sufficient parking space available!“ deals with the current sociopolitical discourse about the future of mobility and reflects its contradictoriness in her very own way.
A tribute to Richard Dawkins (large edition)
2008 · Mixed Media (nodding dogs, book dummy, gas concrete, plywood) · 180 x 80 x 30 cm
Richard Dawkins (* 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He wrote several bestsellers, among them The God‘s Delusion (2006) as well as critical contributions about religion and creationism. Dawkins: „I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.“
A tribute to Richard Dawkins (single edition)
2015 · Mixed Media Mixed Media (nodding dog, book dummy, gas concrete, plywood) · 60 x 20 x 34 cm
Richard Dawkins (* 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He wrote several bestsellers, among them The God‘s Delusion (2006) as well as critical contributions about religion and creationism. Dawkins: „I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.“
A tribute to Yves Klein (blue)
2008 · Mixed Media (1000 jigsaw pieces, box, enamel paint) · 37 x 27 x 6 cm
A tribute to Yves Klein (gold)
2008 · Mixed Media (500 jigsaw pieces, box, enamel paint) · 33 x 23 x 4 cm
A tribute to Yves Klein (pink)
2008 · Mixed Media (1000 jigsaw pieces, box, enamel paint) · 37 x 27 x 6 cm
A tribute to Kasimir Malevich
2008 · Mixed Media (1000 jigsaw pieces, box, enamel paint) · 36 x 24 x 5 cm
A tribute to Piero Manzoni I
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“
A tribute to Piero Manzoni II
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“
A tribute to Piero Manzoni III
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“
A tribute to Piero Manzoni IV
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“
A tribute to Piero Manzoni V
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“
A tribute to Piero Manzoni VI
2008 · fine art print on vat paper · 70 x 100 cm
„Ceci n’est pas merde d’artiste.“