To be or not to be
The double picture is one out of a series called "butterfly effect".
All pictures are painted in earthy, subdued oils on archaic-seeming raw canvas. Hidden within each pair is a subtly repetitive play of reflection and opposition, of symmetry and asymmetry, of perception and time. The rough, unpainted background evokes associations of cave painting on rock walls and is an allusion to the primordial (painting as the mother of the arts). Icon-like and stylized, they evolve into symbols that trace an arc from ancient to modern. Vanitas motifs suggest the genre of still life and strengthen the philosophical aspect of this series. Its central ideas concern death and resurrection, eternal life, freedom, vitality, and the search for physical and emotional equilibrium.
A composition is individually reproduced in its counterpart, so that both mirroring "parents" together create a third, independent image.
In the mirror imaging, the usual rules of visual perception - from left to right, from above to below - are suspended. Before, during, after - these are three time levels that can be discerned in a mirror image, but not always in the right order.
The depictions partially draw on fragments from earlier works and themes, as well as self-developed techniques, and they have the appearance of being metamorphoses of past ideas and works.
The series also merges, reflects, and echoes images created by the energy of the subconscious with material from the Internet and the mass media.
Interchanging image pairs opens up new interpretive possibilities: From the tendentially centrifugal arrangement of the motifs, which places the viewer in the middle of the time line between past and future, a here-and-now focus is attained, a physically perceived closeness that includes the viewer as the “third in the band” (F. Schiller, “The Hostage”).
This apparently insignificant alteration of the viewing circumstances results in a differentiated perception and interpretation according to the physical phenomenon of the butterfly effect: In complex systems, the smallest changes - like the stroke of a butterfly’s wing - can give subsequent events a completely different turn.
All pictures are painted in earthy, subdued oils on archaic-seeming raw canvas. Hidden within each pair is a subtly repetitive play of reflection and opposition, of symmetry and asymmetry, of perception and time. The rough, unpainted background evokes associations of cave painting on rock walls and is an allusion to the primordial (painting as the mother of the arts). Icon-like and stylized, they evolve into symbols that trace an arc from ancient to modern. Vanitas motifs suggest the genre of still life and strengthen the philosophical aspect of this series. Its central ideas concern death and resurrection, eternal life, freedom, vitality, and the search for physical and emotional equilibrium.
A composition is individually reproduced in its counterpart, so that both mirroring "parents" together create a third, independent image.
In the mirror imaging, the usual rules of visual perception - from left to right, from above to below - are suspended. Before, during, after - these are three time levels that can be discerned in a mirror image, but not always in the right order.
The depictions partially draw on fragments from earlier works and themes, as well as self-developed techniques, and they have the appearance of being metamorphoses of past ideas and works.
The series also merges, reflects, and echoes images created by the energy of the subconscious with material from the Internet and the mass media.
Interchanging image pairs opens up new interpretive possibilities: From the tendentially centrifugal arrangement of the motifs, which places the viewer in the middle of the time line between past and future, a here-and-now focus is attained, a physically perceived closeness that includes the viewer as the “third in the band” (F. Schiller, “The Hostage”).
This apparently insignificant alteration of the viewing circumstances results in a differentiated perception and interpretation according to the physical phenomenon of the butterfly effect: In complex systems, the smallest changes - like the stroke of a butterfly’s wing - can give subsequent events a completely different turn.
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