Nascido e crescido na Renânia do Norte-Vestfália, na Alemanha. Quando eu tive que parar de tocar bateria há alguns anos, eu estava realmente sentindo falta de algo. Senti uma espécie de "lacuna criativa", preenchida por uma paixão da juventude: a pintura. Eu costumo pintar enquanto ouço música rhythm'n blues e sinto que pintura e bateria têm muito em comum. Eu percebo trabalhos onde a energia da cor e da textura são essenciais. Nas minhas pinturas abstratas, tento visualizar emoções, sentimentos e estados de ânimo, expressos em blues. Eu também tento expressar a transitoriedade, a decadência da vida como pré-condição necessária para a gênese de algo novo. Algumas das minhas pinturas mostram um motivo parecido com o ZEN. Além de preto e branco, gosto de usar cores quentes e terrosas (acrílicos, pigmentos, cores de efeito ferrugem) - misturadas com pó de mármore, areia ou pasta de modelagem em diferentes camadas - pintadas, suavizadas em padrões de aparência áspera e muitas vezes arcaicos. Às vezes eu também uso mull, pack-twine, material de embalagem, placas de cobre e zinco, denim, pc-sucata e flocos de metal. Todos os meus trabalhos terminaram com um verniz brilhante para protegê-los da sujeira ou dos raios UV. Todas as pinturas estão prontas para serem penduradas. Você só precisa de um prego para pendurá-los. Fui jurado publicamente no top 10 doze vezes na Galeria "Saatchi Showdown", que recebe mais de 40 milhões de visitas por dia. Minhas pinturas foram vendidas para colecionadores particulares em todo o mundo, principalmente para colecionadores dos Estados Unidos da América e Reino Unido (também nos Emirados Árabes Unidos, Austrália, Nova Zelândia, África do Sul, Espanha, Suécia, Suíça, Luxemburgo e Alemanha).
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Passage Way", acrylic, marble dust on canvas, 80 x 60 x 1,6 cm 2015
Exuberant acrylic marble dust on canvas 100x80 2015
Nagged acrylic marble dust on canvas 60x80 2015
Rudiments", acrylic, marble dust on canvas, 80 x 80 x 1,6 cm 2015
Abstract composition acrylic on canvas 100x100x1,6 2015
Blocked acrylic, marble dust newspaper cut out on canvas 100x100x1,6
Eroded acrylic, marble dust on canvas 100x100x1,6 2015
After the blizzard, acrylic, marble dust on canvas 100x100x1,6
Circles & lines acrylic, marble on canvas 100x100 2014
Flowed through acrylic pigments, marble dust on cavas 80x100x1,6 2014
Asymmetrical form acrylic, marble dust sand packing material on canvas 100x100 2014
Corded acrylic, pigments, marble dust pack-twine, copper plates on canvas 100x100x4 2015
Big B. acrylic, marble dust on canvas 100x100x1,6 2014
Deus ex machina I acrylic, pigments on professional guardi artístico paper 50x64 2012
Exhibitions/books: 2004: Cologne
(Germany, Galerie T.); 2005: Wetter
(Germany, “artmile”, local
city bank); 2008: Skogas (Sweden,
Galleri Lyktan, group exhibition); 2009:
New York (USA, Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery in
Beacon, New York, travelling exhibition "Freedom and Art”, February -
May); 2009: Wetter (Germany,
Wohnstättengenossenschaft, March - June); 2009:
Stockholm (Sweden, Ostra Gymnasiet Trangsund, “The
Mirca Tour for Human Rights Exhibition”, group exhibition, November -
December); 2010: Cape Town (South Africa, Belinda Anvil - The Rainbow
Experience Gallery, "Freedom & Art"- project/travelling
exhibition, April - May); 2010:
Cologne (Germany, Kahlshof,
"Planet Earth, Planet Art", group exhibition, September - December); 2011: Cologne
(Germany, Kahlshof, “Cologne meets New York”, group exhibition,
January – March); 2011: Witten (Germany,
Gemeinschaftspraxis Marienplatz, “International Art Show”, group exhibition,
February – May); 2011: Witten (Germany,
Marien Hospital Witten, “New York im Marien-Hospital”, group exhibition, April
- July); 2011: Malta (University of Malta, “The Mirca Tour For
Human Rights”, group exhibition, July – August); 2011: New
York (USA, Skylight Gallery NYC, “Gestalt – German Artists in
Conversation”, group exhibition, July – August; published my art book “VIEW –
Exclusively Abstract”, blurb.com, New York); 2011:
Hagen (Germany, KKH, "...vorwiegend Blau”, group exhibition,
October - December); 2012: New York
(USA, “Room No. 5”, ‘Skylight
Gallery’, Manhattan, group exhibition, August - September 2012); 2012: Witten
( Germany, "konsequent
abstrakt“, Gemeinschaftspraxis Marienplatz, solo exhibition, August - October);
2012: Witten (Germany,
„panta rhei“, Stadtwerke Witten, group exhibition, September – October); 2013:
New York (USA, “European Sensibility Near and Far”,
Gallery 66 NY, group exhibition, January 4th – 27th). Upcoming
exhibitions: 2014: Orewa, (New Zealand, “Nirvanavan
Foundation Exhibition”, Estuary Arts Centre, group exhibition,
March 8th – April 8th); 2014: Luxembourg (Court of Justice of the European
Union, “Poetry and Visual Arts” group exhibition, November); 2015: New York (USA, Gallery 66 NY, group
exhibition/fundraising, from 17th January to 17th February 2015). Upcoming
exhibition: 2015: Skogas (Sweden, Ostra Gymnasiet, Mirca Poster Show
in recognition of Malala Yousafzai, group exhibition, from 29th August to 24th
October).
Position acrylic, marble dust newspaper cut-outs ,copper on canvas 100x100x1,6
Swapped out acrylic, marble dust pigments on canvas 100x100 2014
