work
Do Not Touch
| category | Painting |
| subject | Political / Social, Landscape, Nature |
| tags | textbased art, Gaia, freestyle landscape, pattern, Earth, pattern roller |
| base | 84 cm |
| height | 60 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2020 |
Untouched forests, pristine floodplain landscapes, lush alpine meadows in the Alps, bright red flowering heath landscapes, they are all disappearing at an increasing, alarming rate, despite various protection measures. The red lists are getting longer and longer. Can nature and landscape conservation do anything at all, despite all the efforts? Are the typical, original landscapes becoming smaller and smaller, until they finally disappear altogether? Is the landscape becoming invisible?
The painting "Do Not Touch" is done with gouache, spray paint and acrylics on paper. Distorted, fragmentary but nonetheless beautiful landscapes are combined with found quotes and scraps of words that shook me and should do the same to the viewer. It is part of the series "How to Speak about the Earth", which was started in fall 2020. At its heart is the engagement with the the so called "climate crisis" and Bruno Latour's analysis of the current situation in his book "Facing Gaia".
The painting "Do Not Touch" is done with gouache, spray paint and acrylics on paper. Distorted, fragmentary but nonetheless beautiful landscapes are combined with found quotes and scraps of words that shook me and should do the same to the viewer. It is part of the series "How to Speak about the Earth", which was started in fall 2020. At its heart is the engagement with the the so called "climate crisis" and Bruno Latour's analysis of the current situation in his book "Facing Gaia".
