Lockdown Portraits, 2020

During the 2020 lockdown I created a series of oil-on-paper paintings. Paper sucks up the oil extremely quickly, resulting in an unusual workflow for oil painters: you work more in layers than in color blending.

When producing the Trauma book, I wrote several lyrical fragments, which got associated with certain pieces.

Works of this series were exhibited at my Trauma – solo exhibition at Museum Angerlehner.

One (Lilo with Abelina), 2020 | oil, pencil, ink, marker on paper
42 × 29 cm
Two (Alex with Tablet), 2020 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm

[device-based resonance]

What soothes you. How do you meditate?
How do you self-soothe? // womit beruhigst du dich?
Can you reach beyond your Self?

 

Where are you:

Wo bist du?
Wo beginnst du?
Wo beginnt Zeit?
Wo beginnt deine Zeit?

You grow.
(do you thrive?)

You digest what you cannot
name.

You name what you become
witness to.

It’s a meager voice,
quite often it’s quite
meager.

Du verlässt das Vakuum der Sprachlosigkeit,
kennst Nähe und Liebe.
Gibst Nähe und Liebe.
Woher eigentlich kennst du sie?

Lilo Sleeping, 2020 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Jaqueline, 2020 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm

How do you measure your life.

 

1 + 1 = ∞
∞ = You

Could you look at me? And see me?
Just one one one more time?

Exhibition view "Trauma" at Museum Angerlehner (2021); photo (c) Simon Veres
Alex, 2020 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Plant, 2020 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm

You open your eyes
to never ever close them again.

Sun, 2021 | oil on paper
42 × 29 cm
Feet, 2020 | oil on paper
29 × 42 cm
Lilo Sleeping, 2020 | oil on paper
29 × 42 cm