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LAND-GRABBING 2022 THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL


THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL

In Iceland, what I saw photographically through the lens of my drone was the beginning of a pictorial interpretation of the  confluence of nature and technology: a series of power stations that had been placed in ancient landscapes, artificial forms against the organically grown structures of a wild landscape.

Later, and quite coincidently, I was struck by a satellite picture of the “Burning Man festival” in Nevada at the edge of the Black Rock desert. Its semi circular stages and fences resembled a hexagram and appeared to be the counterpart to the surrounding structures of the desert. It was a picture whose alluring colours held the same fascination as those seen in Iceland. They also had the same tension, relationship and interaction between the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the artificial.

In its contrapuntal, polarised and, at the same time, contingent nature this represents a surprising insight into my own ways of thinking and the structure of my own character. The sensual excess that I look for in my painting is contrasts with a precision that can sometimes border on the pedantic, is part of my essence and finds concrete expression in technical processes.

When human beings intervene into nature it is not always destructive – It is that, of course – but in the right circumstances it can give us a phenomenological and aesthetic approach to our subject.

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"Richtkreis"

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„Measuring the World 1”

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„From the tree of knowledge”

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„Land-Grabbing 1"

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„Land-grabbing 2“

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"From structure to chaos"

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"The Plain Before Nothing"

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"Disturbance"

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„Immersed in the ancient”

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"Homage to Iceland"

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„Erosion“

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„Hommage a Hercules Seghers 2“

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„Perished“

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„Alluvial plain“

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„Measuring the World 2”

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Burning Man

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Hubbles discovery

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The semicircle intervenes

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