Characters

THE SERIES

My latest series explores current issues in our contemporary society. The focus of my paintings is the relationship between people, between man and his environment. I try to depict the alienation, impersonality and superficiality of the relationship and tension between modern existence and man in these animal portraits.

I present personality types in a zoogenic way, referring to man’s insurmountable instincts, his beastliness. We are all pigs, trampling each other in the mud, trying to get from one to the other, while this common journey we call life ends in the same place for all of us. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but greed, avarice, selfishness are among us, and while one rises, the rest starve. In my painting here, too, I seek plasticity and the narrative power of colour. I build a collage-like environment around the “protagonists” that reflects their social and economic status, presenting the animal subjects in the enclosure around them.

Behind the camouflage, stripped and deprived of everything, we ultimately observe the same figure in the series. This confronts the viewer with his own mortality and himself, since it is obvious that without our objects, naked, we are all the same. The compositions stand on their own, but only when viewed together do they give a complete picture of our modern society, with all its injustice and charm.