Yugostalgia

Yugostalgia

Yugostalgia, oil on canvas, Ljubljana/New York, 2008/09 After the collaps of the state of Yugoslavia, the memory of its former president Josip Broz Tito is very much alive among young generation of former Yugoslavs. Their appretiation of the historical figure is neither political nor nostalgic, but resembles very much our todays approach to the revolutionary […]

Stilllife

Stilllife

Stilllife, oil on canvas, Salzburg, 2006/07 A series of paintings suggesting a contemporary table arrangement, connecting to  dutch 17th century stilllife paintings.

Remix

Remix

Remix, oil on canvas, Munich/Vienna, 2010/11 Colliding historical paintings with a contemporary visual culture was the initial idea of a series dating back to the year 2005. The art-historical background provides information for a typographic intervetion, based on POP and the culture of remix. Murder can be seen in the picture of David holding the […]

New Tito

New Tito

New Tito, acryl on canvas, Koper, Slovenia, 2009 As a result of the exhibition YUGOSTALGIA in New York these additional reflections on the historical figure of Josip Broz Tito, former president of the ex-state of Yugoslavia, were created.

Family portrait

Family portrait

Family portrait, oil on canvas, Salzburg, 2006 Electronic media provides a basis for a postmodern social network. The comunication is provided by internet, laptop and cables. In this series fragments of patchwork relations are commulated on tables and painted in oil.

Complementary

Complementary

Complementary, acryl on canvas, Linz, 1999 University studies of colleges.

Rubens remixed

Rubens remixed

Rubens remix, oil on canvas, Munich, 2005 Colliding historical paintings with a contemporary visual culture; the flamisch painter Peter Paul Rubens provided the catholic church with visual propaganda against the growing protestantism. This barock heritage reappear in these paintings with ironic quotations of its historical content in a fully commercialised add-world.

Landscape 2009

Landscape 2009

Landscape, oil on canvas, Ljubljana, 2009 Rundown fassades, broken streets, the overall economic situation simply wouldn´t fit the amount of brand new cars in the slovenian capital Ljubljana. Shortly before the economic crisis reached the car-industry in 2009, this series of rural landscape-paintings marked the historical point of technological, economical and social bet on individual […]

Landscape 2010

Landscape 2010

Landscape, acryl/oil on wood/canvas/cardboard, Koper, 2010 In the mideval town of Koper on the slovenian coast the paintings are staging the individual-transport dominated rural situation.