I started my professional career by studying not art but at first archeology and then philosophy. During several years I participated in group exhibitions of abstract paintings while writing a Phd thesis at the LMU Munich about the question, how and why the existence of art is intrinsically related to the question of truth.
When I finally started to work as a professional artist, my work was based on the Platonic assumption that art had to represent something or some Idea. Living in Moscow between 1991 and 1998), I worked on abstract oil paintings that were meant to express my subjective feelings about the objective world I lived in.
Later, while I stayed in Vienna (1999-2015), I produced and exhibited multifaceted series of conceptual paintings, installations and objects, and I interfered with artistic and philosophical interventions in the urban life of Vienna. I wanted my art to be an image of certain range of social and intellectual questions that haunted me.
It is only from 2015 on that I have been focused on the holistic function of art, and on the fact that this metaphysically therapeutical purpose can be the sole content of artistic expression.
While I have been living for the last 5 years under the soft tropics on La Réunion, I am now based in Paris, where life is tougher again, and I am positive to being able to develop this approach even further and in a deeper way.
in Vienna, Austria, I am represented by the galerie Julius Hummel:
https://www.galeriehummel.com
From 2015 on, I started to deal with the non-dual experience of art
as a subject by itself. Working on a paper about Kasemir Malevich, who had claimed to have created the icon of modern times in painting the black square on a white surface, I realized that the content of art could simply be its own capacity to enhance an experience.
In a totally different, non Platonic tradition, art does not intend to tell a story, not even the story that it is not telling one. It would guide you into an aesthetic experience, in which your mind fully enjoys its playful but ultimately necessary mission to perceive the world. What a wonderful and self sufficient thing to do…
The holes in my paintings are laid out carefully in the midst of the limited painted surface, as rocks and stones in a Japanese zen garden (I also recently discovered John Cages work “stones” on that subject) and the painted area as the crushed gravel that has been raked into patterns.
biography:
some exhibition pics:
and naturally my work is inspired
by all the intensive adventures of LIFE
and the magic of its discoveries
former times: installations and objects, Vienna
long ago: some exhibition - pics, Vienna
