A tribute to pop culture. 
The artworks in this series celebrate well-known pop culture stars. – It is a tribute to artists who have influenced, even shaped, their field. In more modern terms: they were role models. Artists were always inspired by the works of other artists.

A tribute to popular culture

I draw these artworks on a graphics tablet in programs like Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop. Then I have a one-of-a-kind print made on Hahnemühle paper with archival inks. – Edition 1/1

Digital drawings / One-of-a-kind-artworks

I paint these artworks on a graphics tablet in programs like Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop. Then I have a one-of-a-kind print made on Hahnemühle paper with archival inks. – Edition: 1/1

Digital paintings / One-of-a-kind-artworks

CHINESE FANS: (Chinese) Fan paintings have ink and colors on silk or ink and light colors on silk.
These fans are made of digital ink.

CHINESE VASES: Over the centuries Chinese ceramics have been developed in a wide variety of shapes and styles. From the Neolithic to the Qing dynasty the evolution has never stopped adapting styles and tastes of other cultures. There are around 20 basic shapes of Chinese vases.

"Chinese Antiques"

Wunderkammer / Cabinet of Curiosities:
Wunderkammern were collections of notable objects. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. The most famous and best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums. (Wikipedia)

Wunderkammer / Cabinet of Curiosities

FORCES / SPIRITUAL ENERGY: This collection is about the attentiveness towards the fields of energy in our outward world: chaos, order, building up, destruction, working together, war … and the possibilty to find a rich world inside of us, full of values, shades, and meanings, messages from body and mind, of dissonance and agreement.

"Forces / Spiritual Energy"

READ THE SIGNS: An advice in difficult times: In difficult times it may help to be able to read the signs!  – "Read the Signs" recurs to the depicting process of reading the sacred signs in the skies (of ancient China)  by the most advanced Taoist (Daoist) Masters in order to help the people / the state [the world] in crisis.


"Read the Signs"

STARS: Pictures from a Supernova in the famous stellar constellation Big Dipper (Great Bear). The distance from earth is 124 lightyears. So the depicted Supernova outburst happened at least 124 years ago.
PLANETS: “Emanations from Solaris (bird’s view)” is dedicated to the Science Fiction author Stanisalw Lem. 
We watch emanations from the ocean of Solaris while astronaut/scientist Kris Kevin is gliding over the ocean of Solaris remembering his first summer in Siberia together with his (deceased) wife Harey.
GALAXIES: are taken from Gsaller's "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". It's all about the intermingling of forces, dots, lines, colours and volumina. – What a delight to zoom in, to enter.

"Planets, Stars, Galaxies"

“Heaven and Earth (and Man)” was presented as part of Artist’s performances at renowned Literaturhaus Wien and Literarisches Quartier in Vienna. A catalogue is in preparation. HEAVEN AND EARTH (AND HUMANITY): Following the Chinese sage Lao Tzu (Laozi): The way [Tao/Dao] begets one; one begets two [yin/yang, heaven/earth]; two begets three [and man]; three begets the myriad creatures [the world as we know it]. Lao Tzu, chapter 42 (transl. D. C. Lau)

"Heaven and Earth (and Man)"

Sima Chengzhen was the author of the very influential Tang era work "Neiguan jing" on Taoist Inner Observation (Meditation).
I wanted to create images dealing with the great tradition of Chinese meditation. – I would like to thank following scholars of Chinese thought and religion: Livia Kohn, Isabelle Robinet, Kristofer Schipper, Charles Luk (Lu K'uan Yü), Master Zhang Xiao Ping and Fabrizio Pregadio. Their books/lessons on Chinese Taoist Meditation, Longevity Techniques and Inner Alchemy inspired me. Livia Kohn‘s translations of the Neiguan jing (1989 and 2010) were the starting point for the creation of the whole series dedicated to "Chinese Meditation".

Neiguan / Chinese Meditation

FIRLEFANZ / TRUMPERY: In English Firlefanz means trumpery, frippery.
In German trumpery, frippery means Firlefanz, Tand. –
One of the many harmless and omnipresent cousins of original chaos.
I wanted these art works to be either small (see print options) or rather large (original).

"Firlefanz / Trumpery"

KNIGHT, LIONS AND DAMES: Spectacles. A knight, two lions and two dames at a medieval court. Long time ago.


"Contemporary Art meets Art History"

A CHILDREN'S ROOM WALLPAPER: The elements are changing form and shape, gliding, seeking alliances. An elephant turns into a worm or into a witch on a broom. – Hey, look, there's a whale! "Children's Room Wallpaper" tries to integrate perception of children alluding to the fantasy of children trying to decipher everything new and then bringing, incorporating this new perception into their children's reign.

"A Children's Room Wallpaper"

NO–ONE: No-one and a bird (or a small pterosaur).
In The Tyrol (where I was born) there is a valley which is named "Unnamed Valley". The only village there is called "Unnamed". Maybe no one comes from there (or his bird).

Harald Gsaller