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Courtier with Snakes Facing the Devil Drawing

Christian Kabuß

Germany

Drawing, Chalk on Paper

Size: 35.4 W x 25.6 H x 0 D in

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There are two big late medieval murals in our village church, each telling a story in a sequence of pictures. One is dealing with the 15 signs for the end of the world, and it looks as if the artist has seen them all in the time of the work’s making. The other, showing the legend of a hallow, is special though. It doesn’t end with the martyr’s death as usual but with the young hero on the move into life. I keep being attracted to one of the scenes showing a young man facing the devil, his head entangled by at least 3 snakes. It’s not even clear from the visible remnants if the man is good or bad, same with the snakes, and this tension motivated a series of artworks from my side. The work shown here features both the young man and “his” snakes as positive, withstanding forces (there is a long mythological tradition in the positive powers of snakes). By this it is a work of hope my colleagues needed in late Middle Ages—and that is in need here and now.

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Drawing:Chalk on Paper

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Size:35.4 W x 25.6 H x 0 D in

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Christian Kabuß is an internationally established German artist and musician. He studied Medicine at the University of Rostock, then went on to Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design Budapest to practice Fine Art. The artistic language within his paintings is deeply linked to a phenomenological approach to bodiliness, the freedom of subconscious artistic creation, and the theoretical and practical considerations of Design. Kabuß has exhibited in Germany and abroad. His works are present in regional, national and international collections. It is his aim to work as honest as possible, and he tends towards imagery, which is embedded in Lebenswelt, and sound. As a pianist, he performs small intimate concerts. His music is soft, sometimes freely improvised and portrays a sense of a parallel-world. Exhibitions in Italy, Sweden, Germany, China, and Japan.

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