 "self-portrait as a child" |
l come to grips
with themes like family, sex, nature and politics, dealing, as a
painter, with the basic and
fundamental language of the medium. l aim to spotlight, lyrically and
critically, everyday experince and the individual positioning of the
artist.
With this starting-point, my painting, for which l use my own body as a model, goes beyond self-portrait or representation of identity but it is rather a means of thought-projection with inquiry to my own personal history. As a result of this empathy process and modification of western painting and iconography, l try to represent an artistic alteration of stereotypes and in this way to express a showdown with monotony of everyday. As a mutated heir of an unavoidable but exposeable Western tradition, l have doubts as mission of art and morever whether it is possible to create a painting without being corny, since even extremely authentic or avant-gardist areas of visual arts have been smitten by pecuniary spirit of the art industry. Nevertless, l try to believe in an art with an ethical content, an art which bears a relation to both social and political ideas, as well as working with aesthetics as a fundamental precondition for communication with viewers, in respect of viewers.
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