Excerpts from the Suicide Painter Series, 2007

Oil on canvas

3 á 200 x 200 cm

 

 

holy%20spirit

 

Excerpts from the Suicide Painter Series takes on ideas revolving around the artist as a mythical figure and the expressive gesture as medium. In The Holy Spirit Runs Through Me, the running horse-like figure serves as a metaphor for a presumed universal power which is channelled through the artist and his artwork.

 

 

 

 

 

monster%20artist

 

Monster Artist Devours Man takes on the idea of the artist as an outsider. The artist becomes a monstrosity devouring his own humanness in able to distance himself from the world as his object of research.

 

 

 

 

 

psychic warrior

 

Psychic Warrior depicts the artist as a hunter within the inner landscapes of the mind, a clairvoyant searching for prey.

 

 

 

 

 

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