The works from the series Human Image juxtaposes details from Giotto’s frescoes of the Capella Scrovegni with contemporary images from advertising, science and everyday life.
The symbol of the aureole is often placed as an integral detail or across all formats on the works, which are usually produced as individual pieces using the silk-screen printing process. In these works, the aureole takes on the meaning of a placeholder that raises questions about the current position of man and his vitality.
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exhibition view: Human Image (Loving the Alien), Andreas Reinsch Project, Berlin 2017
Selection from the series: Human Image
each: silksreen print on canvas, 220 cm x 180 cm / silkscreen print on paper, 100 cm x 70 cm
Detlef Günther_Human Image_Verkündigung_silkscreen print on canvas_ 220 cm x 180 cm
Detlef Günther_Human Image_Noli Me Tangere_silkscreen print on canvas_ 220 cm x 180 cm
Detlef Günther_Human Image__Android Smile_silkscreen print on canvas_ 220 cm x 180 cm
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
Detlef Günther, silkscreen print from the series: Human Image
silkreen prints from the series: Human Image
silkreen prints from the series: Human Image
silkreen prints from the series: Human Image
Exhibition views | Andreas Reinsch Project, Berlin
… 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.
The Power to Believe
excerpt: Christian Kupke, Versionen des Denkens. Version I: Enttäuschendes Denken – Berlin 2021, S. 99-101
Read the entire text (german/english) HERE
Dignity of Man, a piece for 3-channel moving canvas and 8 channel sound. 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.
Dignity of Man is a tribute to a young man who, at the age of 24, in 1486/87, wanted to invite scholars from European universities to discuss human freedom: Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494. His opening speech “Oration on the Dignity of Man” was never given by him, but today it is one of the most famous texts of the Renaissance.
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Detlef Günther_DIGNITY OF MAN, 3-channel video installation
Moving Canvas | DvD-version (1_channel, 29′ 48”)
Dignty of Man, 1-channell video installation | Anatomisches Theater (Langhansbau), Berlin
Dignity of Man, 1-channel video installation in cooperation with the Laptoporchester Berlin on July 12, 2006 at the Anatomisches Theater (Langhansbau) in Berlin.
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
Detlef Günther_Indeterminate Image, digital prints, acrylic paint, foil, stone tape, mirror sherd, 110 cm x 420 cm
More imgaes from the exhibition “Transnaissance_No.2” here as PDF-View
Secureness is cristall clear
oil, polaroid-foto, digital print, tape, bed sheet on alu di bond, 200 cm x 360 cm
Detlef Günther_Geborgenheit ist kristallklar/Secureness is cristall clear, oil, polaroid-foto, digital print, tape, bed sheet on alu di bond, 200 cm x 360 cm
Subway station project: Dignity of Man
draft | Big Images | UBhf-Kurfürstenstraße, Berlin
Dignity of Man is a tribute to a young man who, at the age of 24, in 1486/87, wanted to invite scholars from European universities to discuss human freedom: Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494). His opening speech “Oration on the Dignity of Man” was never given by him, but today it is one of the most famous texts of the Renaissance.
Selection from the Series: Dignty of Man
Collages on Paper (mixed media), each: 70 cm x 50 cm