“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine
SPIRAL RAPTURE
graphite on paper - 1993 - 6 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches - 16 x 27.5 cm
private collection, Austria
This first drawing was inspired by an etching of the Austrian artist Ernst Steiner, called 'Lebensbaum'. Back then, I just saw it as a design on a postage stamp. Many years later, when I returned to Austria, I became friends with him (he actually lives only a few blocks from my place in Vienna). I purchased the etching from him prior to an exhibition in Gloggnitz 2016 that I helped organize. It is one of my prized possessions.
There are some works that I regret letting go and I wished I still had it. So I decided to make a larger second version of it:
graphite on paper - 40cm x 70cm - 2013
exhibited last time in Seattle USA, 2016 IM’AGO PRIMORDIALIS at Krab Jab Studio
I was particularly pleased to share a wall with a work by H.R. Giger
cropping out to the center, you can see the resemblance with the first work
That drawing had an adventurous trip prior to getting to Seattle. I actually sent it to my friend Liba in Paris: she was taking it in her luggage to the USA a year earlier for a show
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