Point Cloud (turmoil 1)

Description

Silkscreen print, 50×35 cm Edition of 100, signed by the artist
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In this series the artist is trying to convey the chaotic feelings one may experience in times of climate crisis, a sense of humility and sideration that strikes while contemplating the impacts of forces in nature, the amplification of winds, storms, floods, fires and extreme weather events induced by climate change. This particular aesthetic of the dark sublime is very much influenced by the epic engraving works of French painter Gustave Doré (1844-1883).

While the work can be seen as a metaphor for the climate crisis, it also suggests the overwhelming scale of the other challenges humanity is facing. Visual cues also suggests the weight of geopolitical instability and ongoing nuclear threats. The artist’s experience of the technological sublime in German coal mines grounded his realization of the hopelessness of techno optimism.