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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. 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 the colour red like blood with ecoline-inks. On the other, and all around the motif, the new vocabulary specific to Covid-19 is handwritten with a pencil.
The two pieces are presented as a diptych.
It was exhibited
2023 at the Centre Culturel Français, Freiburg and at the Dorothea Maetzel Künstler Haus in Hamburg.
2025 at the Galerie Melbye-Konan in Hamburg for the group show: The Sea between Us