Body Paintings, 2011
Body
Painting (big blue)
oil on canvas, stretcher, wire, mountings
235 x 110 x
Body Painting (magenta walking)
oil on canvas, stretcher, wire, mountings
205 x 200 x
Body Painting (black on wheels)
oil on canvas, stretcher, wire, mountings, wheels
215 x 150 x
Body Painting (hanging pink)
oil on canvas, stretcher, wire, mountings
200 x 80 x
The body - as shape, texture and matter - embodies the antithesis of a purely conceptual assessment of
the world - and art. Without any
conceptual ties, the body does
not only become naive, but also vulgar.
Paintings conceptual collapse led to the
medium’s degeneration into infantility, but
also a displacement off the stage, into the obscene.
The fall from concepts is simultaneously
a reincarnation as body. Painting has lost its memory,
its binding to the surface and the hierarchy of representation, its tie to history other than
by virtue of its materiality.
It now confronts us as direct and unmediated mass.
Body Paintings is a series of spatial,
bulky objects made from painting's traditional components - canvases, stretchers, glue and oil color.
Together they form a landscape of interrelated bodies. We
enter into a physical
theater where the ideological
and concrete emptiness of the objects can be filled by our projections. But as
reflection works both ways, the
objects also stage us.