Dignity of Man
A piece for 3-channel moving canvas and sound.
Moving Canvas | DvD-version
1_channel, 29′ 48” | Spoken Words: Amy Evans
Dignty of Man | Anatomisches Theater,Berlin
The piece was premiered as a 1-channel video installation in cooperation with the Laptoporchester Berlin on July 12, 2006 at the Anatomisches Theater (Langhansbau) in Berlin.
Review: Berliner Zeitung | Feuilleton (german)
Text: Civilized Meditation | Angelika Sommer (german)
Stream | The Return of Responsibility
Design for a light/sound installation: The sound environment deals with the text from the speech by Pico della Mirandola, “Dignity of Man”, is rather quiet in character and will be arranged in such a way that the beginning and end merge smoothly into one another.
The Need for Renewal
wallapplication: oil, stone tape, net material on canvas, approx. 260 cm x 220 cm | 1000 photos
Transnaissance_no.1
exhibition views | Andreas Reinsch Project, Berlin
Indeterminate Image
digital print, acrylic paint, foil, tape, mirror, 110 cm x 420 cm
More images from the exhibition “Transnaissance_No.2” here as PDF-View
from the Series: Dignty of Man
Collages on Paper (mixed media), each: 70 cm x 50 cm
Secureness is cristall clear
oil, polaroid-foto, digital print, tape, bed sheet on alu di bond, 200 cm x 360 cm
Enhanced Performance | Preacher
butterfly box, digital prints, silkscreen print on glass, acrylic paint, dissecting needles, 36 cm x 48 cm x 5 cm
Enhanced Performance
Studio View | l: Enhanced Performance | r: Beautiful Hands | each: silkscreen printig, foils, woodden frame, laquer on canvas, approx. 140 cm x 210 cm
Mannequin | Quid Tum?
Studio View | each: silkscreen printig, foils, woodden frame, laquer on canvas, approx. 140 cm x 210 cm
From their mother’s womb | What ever form
each: silkscreen printing, oil, foil on canvas, approx. 220 cm x 140 cm
Skin
Design for an interactive video-sound installation that develops and changes acoustically with the movements of the visitors. Hanging on the walls are 10 video paintings (the number varies depending on the room ratio): real, natural images of the sky (differentiated shades of blue). The location and date of the image are displayed at the bottom of the screen. The visitor enters the room. As they walk through the room, invisible sound zones pass by. The sound space refers synchronously to the locations of the projected sky recordings on the walls (quiet).
DIGNITY
wallapplication: oil, graphite, Voalstoff on canvas, approx. 220 cm x 280 cm
-> other works from Futur II (Dignity of Man).pdf
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The Mirandola Series
each: transparent paper, wax, acrylic paint on canvas, 42 cm x 29,7 cm – 2019
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The Doubling of Vision
Moodboard, 200 cm x 300 cm
Modern man is an invention – an invention that has its origins in the early Renaissance, around 1420-1500. However, the beginnings of this way of thinking can be traced back further to Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337), who is now regarded as the founder of Renaissance painting, and Petrarch (1304-1374), who is considered a co-founder of humanism. Around 100 years later, Pico della Mirandola wrote his speech “De hominis dignitate (The dignity of man-1486)”, in which he describes man as a wondrous “chameleon”.
from the series: Human Image
each: silksreen print, oil on canvas, 220 cm x 180 cm / silkscreen print on paper, 100 cm x 70 cm
Exhibition views
Andreas Reinsch Project, Berlin 2017
Last Judgement
l: silkscreen printing, watercolor glaze on canvas (diff. sizes)
r: LED-lightbox, digital print, lacquer (front – diff. sizes | draft)
Golden Gate
l: silkscreen printing, watercolor glaze on canvas (diff. sizes)
r: LED-lightbox, digital print, goldleaf (back – diff. sizes | draft)
Deep Time
silkscreen printing, acrylic painting on paper (diff. sizes)
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… the ten paintings are still portraits, however strange that sounds. They thematize, they allegorize man as pure potentiality, as that which remains of him if one removes all narcissism, …
Christian Kupke: The „Grund“ picture cycle by Detlef Günther, Berlin, March 2017 – Read the entire text HERE.
Grund 1 | 2 | 3
each: oil on canvas, 220 cm x 180 cm
Grund 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
each: oil on canvas, 160 cm x 120 cm
Grund 10 | The Power to Believe
Christian Kupke, Versionen des Denkens. Version I: Enttäuschendes Denken – Berlin 2021, S. 99-101
Read the excerpt from the text (german/english) HERE
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