DYSNOMIA

ORIGINAL PAINTING

ACRYLICS ON CANVAS

SIZE: 120 x 60 cm / 48 x 24 inch

YEAR OF ORIGIN: 2021

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4.500,00 €

  • 8 kg
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DESCRIPTION

DYSNOMIA is the daimona of lawlessness in Greek mythology.

A daimon is a spiritual being (see demon in religious studies). The term can refer to a god or the soul of a dead person.

But what is usually meant are beings who belong to a class that can be distinguished from gods and humans.

The daimones mediate between gods and humans.

 

The painting is pretty much inspired by “Wings Of Desire” [Der Himmel über Berlin], a romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders in 1987. 

The film is about invisible, immortal angels, who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. 

 

And that`s how I understand these figures (Orbiters); We are surrounded by them all day long. Send from heaven, they carefully watch us humans, they feel with us, unable to interfere. But if we listen carefully, we might be able to see them, too.

 

That`s why the main character is painted only in black and white.

It could have been the poster for the movie. But that`s what I had in mind. I was working with only one fresh pink color for the background,

which boosts the main character's wings and covers the whole format.

 

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The origin of the depictions of angels can already be traced back to Judaism. Albrecht Dürer had the angels appear in connection with the apocalypse.  The early modern period popularized the illustration of small child angels with chubby cheeks. 

 

There was also controversy surrounding the nature of angels: scholars such as Thomas Aquinas pondered the question of how and why. 

Aquinas even argued that angels do not have to have bodies. But it is a topic, which is missed out in Modern Art.

Artists like Alfred Schwarzenschild (1920) or Herbert James Draper (1898) painted the “Fallen Icarus”, but as we know that`s Greek mythology.  

 

I would love to say, that it was Caravaggio, who inspired me to create a whole series of guys wearing these massive wings, as I have never seen that in paintings like that before. And a wise man once said: “Create your world! Paint what you like to see in paintings.”