Homeless Sculpture

The homeless person—sleeping in the street, with a cardboard as his mattress and a newspaper as his cover, still holding on to a half-empty bottle in his hand—is one of the few blockhead sculptures I have done in this horizontal format. It is a portrait of someone in slumber, oblivious about the world around, but also in a way a mirror for the society that is also oblivious about such people and their suffering, although partly responsible for their misfortune and position. My “Blockheads” cycle is inspired by the urban environment and the visual style of street-art culture. It comprises painted wooden-beam sculptures and large-format acrylic paintings. Like street-art totems, the Blockhead sculptures embody everyday characters you meet in the city and in contemporary popular culture. The particular blend of two-dimensional drawings on a three-dimensional surface makes them quite alive and recognizable, each of them fulfilling their individual block of space in their own “mentally limited” way. These are all images, scenes, and characters from our everyday city lives and our contemporary popular culture, by which I attempt to portray the current society we are living in—analogously to the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, or James Ensor, who all played with the grotesque, thus offering their critical commentary about the life and people of their own time. My portraits are stylistically very different, of course, since I was brought up with video games, comic books, animation, graffiti, and street art.

Sculpture:Wood on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:26.8 W x 4.5 H x 3.6 D in

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