JB 16 - Jack Bavarian Print

An art project that combines virtual, digital and real worlds. The Bavarian Wolpertinger saga is presented in a modern and contemporary form. A unique art IP project. Curator & Art Historian Dr Martin Schmidt-Magin, 2022: "... In the picture motif, Christine Jaksch connects her own biographical roots - born in Bavaria and family roots in the USA - with the history of the mythical creature of the "Wolpertinger" *, whose origins lie in the 19th century, both in Bavaria and Central Europe, and in the USA, there as the "Jackalope". The Wolpertinger becomes the connecting, sometimes tongue-in-cheek element of two continents and cultures; the European and the North American. The artist transports the timeless mythical creature into a contemporary, computer-generated visual language with clear lines and clearly defined surfaces. The "portrait", reduced to the head of the Wolpertinger and given frontally, sits centrally in the picture, evoking proximity to the image type of "Christ as Pantocrator". The inconsistency of the Wolpertinger and the previous NFTs is transformed into an icon by Christine Jaksch. With ease, she declines the pictorially feasible on a fixed framework in the alternation of coloured areas and line patterns, and in doing so finds new, unpredictable possibilities for change again and again..." * The Wolpertinger is a mythical creature of inexact origin. It is described as a hybrid creature of various forms, for example as a hare with deer antlers and duck feet. Taxidermists began assembling body parts of various animal species in the 19th century to sell them to tourists as a regional attraction.