Poker Player Painting

The theme of time reflects one of Bode’s most important artistic preoccupations. The time is that of the present - which, in its anonymity and coldness, is seen as threatening. The experience of time is not contemplative, not preserved in a kind of timelessness; on the contrary, all creatures and everything he paints, are subject to its inescable flow. In his paintings the objects are torn away, like a rag. He uses also film scenes to depict the lapse of time, space and motion. Sometimes people appear outside of the paintings events on the white of the canvas. Those are the driving forces behind the paintings. His paintings can be understood as resistence against the ravening destruction of time. For that pure realism appears to him not to be sufficient. Bodes style of painting wants to manage more than a pure copy. To give the basic themes of humanity a contemporary form, he uses the contrast and combination of representational art and an expressive free painterly style, such as in objects which seep away. Perception is not limited to external perception, a perception depicting the visible; it includes an inner perception. Bode uses creative means to analyse various conditions of consciousness. His changing of reality draws the eye to the destruction of this creation, to hell as present time, featuring themes of violence, to the dangerous depths of psychic reality, to the world of emotions: the mirror becomes a distorting mirror; the mirror does not portray – it makes

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:31 W x 39 H x 2 D in

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