VERTIGO
ORIGINAL PAINTING
ACRYLICS ON CANVAS
SIZE: 70 x 50 cm / 28 x 20 inch
YEAR OF ORIGIN: 2022
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DESCRIPTION
The inspiration for this painting was the German movie “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.
VERTIGO describes that feeling of how to manage or navigate these huge wings. As the main characters can go wherever they want, they might come across areas, that remind us of the brutality of war. Especially when it gets dark, unconsciousness takes over, and mixed feelings are concerning or even guiding us.
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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.”