The book

"No Perfectionist Art"

In the work "No Perfectionist Art", language and image enter into a symbiosis by forming a whole of text in which the two code systems complement each other. There is no claim to external perfection, but the focus is on conveying the content. Each of the three chapters is enclosed by a pro- and epilogue, in which the former invites and prepares the reader to receive the following six short stories and their associated paintings, while the latter encourages them to reflect on what they have grasped.
The first chapter “The Time is now” reflects events in the world that have had such a lasting influence on the artist that he has processed them in pictures. They tell of concrete events such as the story of a girl who is about to be raped, a terrorist trying to pray the blood from his hands, a painter who subjects her will to colors, a boy who makes peace with art want to create, from the destruction of the earth by man and from a love that will be eternal and never.
In the second chapter, “Dream Interpretation”, the recipient learns stories through eyes on paper, in which dream experiences take on narrative form. Memories that are only vaguely drawn into consciousness take on a linguistic form, and characters experience the painful suffering of an unfulfilled love, tell of their lives, which are no more than a self-contained framework of lies, admire in poisonous greed riches that they bought with loneliness , quiver in burning waves of jealousy, are haunted by relentless fear and kill their family and themselves in all destructive despair.

In the third and penultimate chapter, "Intoxication of Desire", the focus is on thinking about desires and desires, in that the characters live out their sometimes darkest desires or lose their ability to live them out. It is about a little girl who can only express her wishes for the end of her entire family in the war by drawing butterflies, a mother who is torturing her daughter with constant pressure to perform, the death of an artist, the death of which some share Pleasure that filled others with resentment, the snapshot of a murder of their own sister, the living out of a forbidden love, and the desire that those who are dead will forever captivate them.
The fourth chapter, which is to be understood as additional material, "Wake Up" shows the reader in a short sequence a world that is the consequence of today's political conditions and decisions. In a somber dystopia, the female characters see no other choice than to react to the social situation than with the only free act that is still available to them. The suicide.
Brief moments in the life of the characters, who decide everything for this life, embrace everything, determine everything, are depicted in concise sentences and expressive paintings. The work forms a conglomerate of spoken images and painted stories.
The pictures were mounted on house walls and on paper by the artist, photographed and then compared to the typewritten text. Both sides are linked by thematically related installations and drawing elements to form a total work of art, so that aesthetically pleasing content that speaks different codes becomes accessible to the recipient.

Expressive and very personal, like all of his works, the book itself becomes a work of art.
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