8
Jul
2011
FLYING
a couple of years ago, the daughter of a friend of mine was sad for the entire day after she discovered that she will never be able to fly, she must have been about 6 or 7 years old & she had learned to walk, run, swim, ride a bike and even climbing. so she had assumed that next she would take up flying, we had nothing really to say for comfort – at that time – I dedicate the acrobat – paintings to her – we can grow wings.
4
Nov
2010
TV3 – as screensaver in university…
stills from the video – that is invading the screens in the library at university in Vienna
another version of the performance ZENTRIFUGE – in this film we managed to put space & gravity in question.
I hear the students like to follow it & try to figure out how it works …
28
Jul
2010
I’m the KING of the CASTLE
to be happy
to be totally happy – that is an ecstatic feeling you forget about everything & there is this moment… maybe even a long moment – the world is perfect, all is right…
I am looking for that experience again – I see it with kids quite often -
25
May
2010
WAYS OF SEEING
I am reading John Berger & I am impressed – about the point of view I am taking while I am painting…
… But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men – not only because the feminine is different from the masculine – but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt about that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.
12
May
2010
getting bigger – getting closer
the next painting slowly emerging – I want to get an even closerlook – so let’s make it bigger – which isn’t really what I can make visible through the internet – where everything fits into the screen no matter how big or small it is !
this time you can take a small glimse of the studio – in the back there is still the last painting – which I just sold – fresh from the eazle so to say!
4
May
2010
I just looked through last years dokumentation -
& found this panorama:
http://panoramas.cgtechniques.com/masc-osei/2009-05-21%20Masc/index.html?src=Raum1.mov
quit amazing view of the space – …you almost miss the paintings whirling round …
26
Apr
2010
EXAMPLE
here you can see me rehearsing & figuring out in my studio – & the you see where I take it next
there is still way to go…
you are welcome to propose – if you have an idea!
21
Mar
2010
how to live up to this… ?
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon
like this painting I’m working on – I want him to look at me & hold on to a glass – really holding on – but I ‘m just staggering around with my brush & he is simply looking flat
I think he is getting there now – …
I got stuck with the book about the painters aids – by hockney – how all painters used technical aid as soon as it was invented like: camera obscura & mirrors & fotos & so on – hockney shows the traces that the technical devices leave in the work of the artist – & I fell for one detail – in many paintings the subject turns out left handed – mirrored probably – so I went to propose a change – & while I was there – feeling quite bold indeed (I don’t feel like competing with caravaggio really) – I also made up some changes in the perspective – cheers!
here is the caravaggio that lead the way
15
Mar
2010
17
Jan
2010
REVIEWING BEFORE PACKING
many ideas & sketches that I will take home – here they are all stretching out …
it has been such a great time
