Ago Collage

Unusual perspectives & minimalist colour composition: Staudts pictures are not aimed to affect the beholder immediately but seek to create a process of visual contemplation. The Berlin based artist uses photographic techniques as well as graphic styles to create a bold connex between classic painting, photography & graphic design. As part of this process the collage is serving a creative & conserving device which captures urban day images into individual & realistic moments, which are retouched with the unique line of the artists brush, into abstract forms & seem to appear from nowhere, alive as sketches. Thilonius creates his works using old prints & methods involving knifes & paint brushes. Ripping, marking & repainting the primitive earth. The jungles of symbols & images which characterise his works are therefore much more than just a chain for references. His work rather is based on the spontaneous effect, through collecting, selecting & composing the material, therby creating an emotional dimension & the pictures are loaded with urban & timeless memorys. As a result of the fusion of these images with pasted, already published images hailing from popular culture the artist creates an intriguing mixture of reality and fiction which opens new perspectives & charges the pictures with vital energy.