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DISCOVERY OF JOY Painting
Germany
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 94.5 W x 63 H x 2 D in
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DISCOVERY OF JOY - PERIODIC SYSTEM In PERIODIC SYSTEM – DISCOVERY OF JOY, the cave paintings at the origins of the modern "Homo Aestheticus" are symbolized by body figures, lined up all about the surface of the painting. They seem to be frozen in either in joy or dance. In this captured frozen movement, they remind statues. This is an echo to what Friedrich Schiller used to describe as the "free game" between statues and the visitors of an exhibition he was visiting, "Man being only human when he plays"3 And it isn't without resonating at its turn with the "free beauty", taken to Kant and used many times to describe cave painting. The cave figures are perishable; as the same, in DISCOVERY OF JOY, the pure silver anf cupper that Martin Ecker uses, among others, to figure the golden surface, metamorphoses through the oxidation's process and thereby marks the passing of time. This fragility, as well as the astonishing modernity of the cave figures, is well illustrated in André Breton's vandalism act of a Pech-Merle's cave figure in 1952. In fact the artist, convinced that the drawing was newly retouched, swiped his finger on the horn of an elk, and thus amputated a piece of the 20,000 years old animal. Beyond the mystery of the cave paintings striking beauty, that it is pointing, the anecdote has the perfect irreverence of a surrealistic hoax. - A. Itting Framing on request
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:94.5 W x 63 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Germany.
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Martin Ecker (*1963 in Frankfurt am Main Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Ecker began his artistic work as a musician at the age of 14, later adding performance and acting until he began to work with painting, photography and video art. Martin Ecker is a German photographer and painter who has devoted much of his work to deciphering the reaction of chance and intention. His fascination with experimenting with reactive processes is of great importance: the observation, the action and reaction, the staging. In addition, Ecker has developed unique methods, such as the use of living organisms in photography or oxidation processes in painting. Space, time and light are recurring themes. His works can be found in international collections, companies, private collectors and art lovers.
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