PUNKED HERO Print

PUNKED HERO is the only picture of Kainhofer with a Corona reference, showing a healthcare worker wearing in a surrealistic setting. With his mixed media artwork the artist wants to show the true heroes during the Corona pandemic, who often worked under massive risks for their own health. The title points out that many of these really important people are extremely bad paid. For this reason, all income Kainhofer generates with this picture goes to the international organisation “Doctors without Borders” (Ärzte ohne Grenzen, Medecins sans Frontieres). ______ The artwork is part of the artist's extensive 'Lockdown-Cycle' - a large number of mostly abstract pictures that Kainhofer painted in the New Zealand outback above Golden Bay. He had retreated there for several months in early 2020 to wait out what he called 'Corona-madness', which had surprised him on a trip around the world. The decelerated and self-reflected life led to a burst of creativity from which over 20 works emerged. ______ Since Kainhofer had to work without the materials from his Munich studio during this time, these paintings were almost exclusively created using natural colors, which he made from coffee-, curry- and chilli-powder or other materials he could buy at supermarkets (the only stores that were allowed to open during lockdown) ______ This makeshift led to a new, grainy surface-structure of the pictures and the reduced colour spectrum gave rise to completely new ideas and facets of his style.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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