"Angel with Crown of Thorns" 01 Photograph

I am a multi-faceted and independent artist, curator and writer, member of the AAVIB (Association of Visual Artist in the Balearic Islands) and the GEMA (Association for text and music writers in Germany), and the manager of the Centre Cultural de Sant Joan / Ibiza. The same week when I was born in 1953, one of the first TV-sets in the neighbourhood came into our house. This makes understandable why I prefer to work with modern and mixed media. I practised since the very childhood cultural tourism across Europe with my parents, visiting cathedrals, castles, museums and so on. - And from the age of nine with my own photographic camera. I began my creative career in the teens, being inspired by the works of Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys. After a graduation in "public relations" and "Marketing", I've been debuting my first musical works in the Lutheran Cathedral of St. Peter in the city of Hamburg. Then I joined a multi-media and performing project, with one of Germany's most famous groups of that era: "Release Music Orchestra". In 1977 I designed an action with objects, sounds and gestures, which was presented in the centre of Kassel during the Documenta, thus coordinating one of the first program improvisations in an international art fair. The following year I moved to Ibiza. During the 80th and 90th I organized several innovative exhibition projects, like "žEin Kürbis voll Asche" or "ž12 unter Null". With the start of the new millennium I worked as a consulter for aesthetics and cultural relationship with the foundation TECSAL in Valencia (until 2005), where in 2000 I organized a symposium with key stakeholders of Europe on the subject "Prospects of Christian Art in the XXI Century" and published the recompilation of the papers in 2003 as a book (German / Spanish). In the fall of 2008 I proclaimed with José F. Tauste the ELASTICISMO as a Nou Surrealism Pitius and started with my investigations on creative Internet presences. Since than I am successful with my works on digital distortion of photographies and had several exhibitions in Spain and Germany. Also I received in 2010 the highest support by the "žInstitut Ramon Llull" in the Balearic Island, for the realization of a huge installation in a floating museum, with interpretations of middle-age philosophy in contemporary images. In spring I presented my distortion-photography in the frame of the "žTiennale der Photographie" in Hamburg 2011.