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FLOS,_ORIS
These are flower drawings made since the start of the pandemic. During the first lockdown period in 2019, when the newspapers were reporting daily on the number of deaths, Spring was more beautiful than ever. It was as if Nature was taking a rest from the planes, the cars and the pedestrians in the streets.
Unable to continue my documentary on the artist Harald Naegeli, I began to draw everything that grew around me with a fine Japanese pen in black ink, which leaves no space for error, and that’s precisely what interests me.
A prima idea.
This time, I drew on slices of wood usually used at Christmas as decorative objects and then thrown away.
Once the drawing was finished, I scanned the wood and reworked the blacks and whites on the computer and printed it 1:1 on Fine-Art Paper and continue to work on with ink, pencils, colour pencils…etc
On one of the two large formats of the same motif at the moment when the war began in Ukraine on 24 Februar 2022, I felt the need to use colours with ecoline-inks and oil pastels. Around the motif , I wrote a quote by Novalis: Paradise is, as it were, scattered all over the Earth and has thus become unrecognizable—its scattered features are to be united, its skeleton filled in. Regeneration of Paradise
Das Paradies ist gleichsam über die ganze Erde verstreut und daher so unkenntlich etc. geworden – Seine zerstreuten Züge sollen vereinigt – sein Skelett soll ausgefüllt werden. Regeneration des Paradieses” Regeneration of Paradise. Novalis, Schriften, vol. 3, Das philosophische Werk II
On the other, and all around the motif, the new vocabulary specific to Covid-19 is handwritten with a pencil.
It was exhibited
– 2026 RELATION(ES) Act in your place, think with the world Edouard Glissant at the Galerie Melbye-Konan in Hamburg
– 2025 at the Galerie Melbye-Konan in Hamburg for the group show: The Sea between Us
– 2023 at the Centre Culturel Français, Freiburg and at the Dorothea Maetzel Künstler Haus in Hamburg.
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