Olaf Thon

"Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes it visible."
(Paul Klee)

This series of works proposes itself as an intense and restless introspection that generates "monsters", which do not belong to an obvious and formal exaltation but to a precise and straightforward confiscation of the individual authenticity.
The figures represented are not ready-made models of today’s society, but victims marginalized by the rules of decency.
It is a condition experienced in desperate situations: from fear to failure, from humiliation to anxiety. The imagined is supported by a simple makeup used to accentuate the iconographic power of the figures. The centrality lies in the face while consciousness fluctuates through the bodies leaving space for the unpredictable, the lines and the materials. Coarse postures, awkwardness and diseases that are usually isolated and dismissed, are seen out of context and make the figure grotesquely attractive. These lonely, grim and marginalized entities are the result of a research that reflects on the human condition and are the original appearance of a society that advances towards forms of individualism dominated by clichés.