Contemporary Art- Street Art - Pop Art - Comic Like

Acrylic, enamel, pencil, spray and stencil on canvas 200 x 160 cm Private collection New York You can’t paint a ‘Pollock’ on a vertical canvas/ ‘Fantastic’

This was a painting Mr. Fantastic (that was in a kind me, myself) had to correct because it was awful. The point was, Claudia, my ex-girlfriend in those times had an affaire with some guy in Berlin, who told her kind of how much he loved her and he painted a square canvas for her, in red with a photocopy glued on it, showing the replicant from Blade Runner (Rutger Hauer) holding a white pigeon in his hands. He also wrote the legend: „Butterfly, for in this world they made us together forever.“ She no longer had any interest in him…. She gave me that canvas. I took it to my studio and ‚corrected’ it with some paint. Acrylic, enamel, spray, marker and pencil on canvas 70 x 70 cm (Automan will set All on) Creepy Fire/painting corrected by Mr Fantastic

Last Issue of the designer’s magazine:’Designer’s Issue’, featuring bubbles, blots, logos and suns!!! Don’t miss it! Acrylic, enamel, marker, pencil, spray and stencil on canvas 72 x 54 cm Private collection Amsterdam Designer’s Issue #27

In a world where drastic weather changes prevented skiing anymore in an overheated world, mountains from all ski resorts all over the world were sold to the world capitals, in this case all of them corporations, like Berlin, which show them proudly on their horizon and covered them with a kind of white epoxy layer, that pretended to look like snow, all throughout the year. In this new scenery new stories take place, where mutations and genetic experiments made it possible to create over-dimensioned dinosaurs and bring Disney creatures to life among others. But unlike real ones those won’t have any offspring and won’t even die, so they’ll keep being for the eternal like the best plastic product ever did. Now, Who’s gonna save the humans from their fall? The Mazinger -Z Robot is in place awaiting his pilot, Koji Kabuto to steer it. Acrylic, enamel, marker, pencil, spray and stencil on canvas 200 x 170 cm Visionär

On the other side of Berlin City Mazinger’s fiancée Aphrodite-A is guiding the animals and toys to a safer place… Acrylic, enamel, marker, pencil, spray and stencil on canvas 200 x 170 cm Starchaser

The last halt on the way to the mountains and seas of Bavaria when you leave Munich is a petrol station from the brand Aral, where we got some food when going on a trip and the friends I had there always went to buy cigarettes and beer, for we lived right round the corner. Among other brands ‚Aral‘ floats in the sky like the logos in the retina, overwhelmed by the non-stopping inputs of advertising. Munich, another European victim of gentrification, where the traditional and cultural sadly extinguish to leave place to corporations. The fight between good and evil. Are the toy-plastic-Indians capable of helping the hero fight the monster? Acrylic, spray, stencil and pencil on canvas 180 x 120 cm Private collection Munich The blue lagoon

Hero / or: (… the day at Bahnhof Zoo was cold and clear. A light blue sky and beneath the Tiergarten it became busy. Logos, slogans, words and brands floating like colours in the blue sky… Lots of people, lots of advertising… I rode my new bike: a blue Cannondale all over the city. At the end of the day an orange sunset. ) / “He lived amidst the Apes” Acrylic, enamel, marker, spray, graphite and pencil on canvas 200 x 160 cm Hero

The ‚Pontiac‘ logo always looked like the face of a monster to me, black and with two long ears like an owl or wolf… Acrylic, enamel, marker and pencil on canvas 180 x 180 cm Pontiac

Hawaii / or: “(… the nights in Berlin I go riding my bike through the havens of the west, passing the imposing Bayer-Schering fortress-building, looking for empty places, staring at the water, beneath the Agip petrol- station… Dreaming of tropical Hawaii in those dark winters, … but it’s only some letters reflected on the inner window of a café in the cold city, a word which brings us to the idolized hawaiian white beaches, a slogan like advertising..)” / “Diamonds are forever” Acrylic, enamel, marker, graphite and pencil on canvas 200 x 160 cm Hawaii

It is not Paris but Hamburg, where romances take place this time! Third Millenium Romances in new cities overwhelmed with advertising; everywhere and elsewhere, ads and colours floating in the air like an imprint on the retina. Where is the counterpart of our developed World? Maybe a monster coming out of the lake about to eat us all and destroy the dystopias of our civilization? The casual individual though, greets us with happiness and joy or just shows interests in his cookies only, external to any worldwide social-, economic- or geopolitical issue. Maybe because of negligence, ingenuity or just a furious denial of being willing to know the truth. In the end: panem et circenses or call me dog but give me bread! Where’s the honey Winnie? I’m hungry! Anyways sweet sweet courtship scene: -”Excuse me Lady…” -”Woof woof!” (Pluto’s sounds onomatopeia). And they lived happy ever after. The End Acrylic on canvas 106 x 92 cm Private collection Madrid Courtship at Binnenalster, Hamburg

“Advertising: Look at the new washing powder! Whiter than white! Just check the shirt!!!” …I worked in the coolest agency in Berlin, called Circle Culture as an illustrator and Jr. art director. Johann, one of the two owners my same age became my real friend. I idolized him. I made everything for him. Sometimes I even felt like his dog… Sometimes I even barked at him. He could say something in spanish and that was: ‚Perro Rápido‘, which means fast dog. Acrylic, enamel, spray, marker and pencil on canvas 200 x 160 cm Perro Rápido / Fast Dog

…alludes to the novel „Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo“, the place represented here, a neuralgic knot in the center of West-Berlin where commerce, people and drug-addicts mixed over the times. From the entrails of the ground pink tentacles attack a bourgeois in his fancy Mercedes, as people walk carelessly and two pedestrians wait at the traffic lights: he has the face of Goofy, she looks like Ronald Mc Donald. The pluralization of the individual is at place. Meanwhile the Pink Panther walks at his own pace. It is about the attitude… Acrylic, spray, stencil, pencil, enamel and marker on canvas 92 x 72 cm A day at Bahnhof Zoo

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