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| Hubertus Maass | |
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Born 1956 in Berlin Schoeneberg, living in Bremen since the sixties. |
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Insel der Tuerme (Isle of Towers)
2006 |
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| Hommage to Boecklins isle of the dead.
Key words: (artificial) island, architecture, reflection, WTC, Twin Towers, double helix, DNA. |
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Privatsphaere (Privacy)
2006 |
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| The "classical" still life is mostly allegorical and cryptical, in regard to the recurring symbolism of the draped objects.
The meaning of skull, candle, fruits, vegetables, bag etc. thereby can be looked up in an orthodox catalog of mandatory objects, which interprets its illustration with an appropriate statement (similarly to Tarot or dream interpretation).
Usually it lumps together human sensual pleasures, vanity, curiosity, achievements, material status, pride etc with fugacity as the final conclusion or destination.
Any personal or private symbolic statement of the artist only carries authority if it overrides the object conventions.
However it also deals immediately with the risk, being no longer coherent or interpretably because of being "too personal".
Initially the classical still life lives on the pictorial virtuosity in the illustration of material properties and the optical conversion of sensual seizing (ideally reaching beyond the "trompe l'oeil").
I tried, formally, to subordinate to this archaic, conservative and humble image style, by falling back on the mandatory symbol catalog of hourglass, skull, cornucopia, meal and drinking, allusions on fashion, architecture, science and technology.
As well I used the most apparent symbol for vanity in context with the reproaching of one´s own decay: the mirror.
However I took the liberty of poaching outside of the admissible form repertoire and sneaked a bit of surrealist or dadaistic absurdities in: all objects show up with the same materiality or structure, which I picked up and carried a bit further by concretizing and transforming associated details.
You can compare this process with fantasizing the vision of an animal´s shape in a (wooden) grain or a (stone) structure, which you easily could redraw or emphasize by a draft.
This still life therefore is my plea for constantly involving one´s own fantasy into the view of the presence or the moment being, in order to override the omnipresent threatening end in fugaciousness.
To a certain extent it is my private note to a present-referring life attitude.
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Exegese (Exegesis)
2007 |
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| Christians, muslims and jews (as the most popular representatives of the great world religions) referred to the interpretation of bible, quran or tora to legitimate their sence of mission within living memory.
It is all about power and influence - whether you call it crusade, jihad or jehova´s war.
The mantis is my symbol for the attributes of scribes or religious leaders: wise, orthodox, powerfull and dangerous.
They are the responsible executives for the word, the idea or the model about which "true" faith should rule the world.
The virgin symbolises purity and idealism (weather to demand believeing in immaculate conception or reward for the suicide bomber in the hereafter).
In this case I referred to Edvard Munchs Madonna, which is based on a rare but appropriate interpretation of a juvenescent, sensual, seductive character.
The egg symbolises life´s origin and brings in the biological or scientific point of view.
Its position, within the scene´s composition, interlinks it with the virgin´s abdomen and achieves the optical effect of magnification as the result of its transparent and convex shape.
Via the arrangement of this trinity I wanted to cause an effect of the viewer participating a ceremony or a ritual - celebrating or evoking the whatever unborn is to come here.
The action of the scenery literally happens in the corner where the cragged wall (fundamentalism) and the vitreous or glacially one (liberalism, "glasnost") meet.
I regret that the following has become necessary:
To avoid misunderstanding:
I don´t want to hurt anyone´s faith, religious conviction or belief, but this contribution is my personal statement against the abuse of religion and against violence in the name of any god! |
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Die Beruehrung (The Touch)
2007 |
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| Assemblage with mixed media: 3D art print, acrylic painting, board, wire, cloth. A reflection on dimensions and materials between virtual reality and reality. Key words: image versus object, mirror, light and shadow, colour and structure, construction, grid, rust, synapse, interface, junction, missing link, Michelangelo´s "creation of adam". |
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Dreifaltigkeit (Trinity)
2006 |
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| Profane iconography about western values: beauty, power and identity (national, social and philosophical). Religious marks transposed into cultural, political and lifestyle related attributes. A creative formula set up by means and language of american pop art. 1. Marylin - Hollywood, ideal of beauty, femininity, personality cult, stardom, american dream (from Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe) 2. Coca Cola - USA´s culinary calling card, synthetic product, established as a basic element of beverages: lifestyle, fastfood, alimentation industry, global corporation, capital. 3. Stars & Stripes - national identity, patriotism, military symbolics, moviestar, reaching for the stars, stars in your eyes, stars on Hollywoods "walk of fame". |
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Das Aenigma der Passage (The Enigma of the Passage)
2006 |
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| Environmental keywords: water, seascape, garden, walls, passage.
Situational keywords: gnosis, banished from paradise, archangel, gate, lost or forbidden garden, guardian, bouncer.
Figures and poles: cloaked / revealed, devotional / ideal, moribund / in state of flux, constricted / unfolded, mummed / presented, defensive / offensive.
Also: Idol, golden ratio, liberation, stepping out, interfusing, block, wall, compound versus shape, „Eritis sicut Deus, scientes bonum et malum“, Kaipos, Ataraxia |
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Room full of Mirrors
2007 |
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| An other iconography on an american idol.
The musician or „figure“ Jimi Hendrix, though being related to the sixties, currently reexperiences a kind of renaissance.
The context, in which his spirit is conjured up can be found in the field of chaos- or fractal-related science and art.
So, technically, I modulated the same picture five times on a virtual object, which I want to express motion or verve with: a kind of three dimensional fractal brush stroke. The procedure is similar to wave modulation (carrier/modulator) resulting in five individually distorted portraits in a smashed „digital mirror“.
„Room full of Mirrors“ is based on his introverted, psychological song by the same title, wherein he reflects pschedelic experiences and his status as a public person.
Compared with the Marilyn Monroe portrait, the specific values have changed according to the proceeded zeitgeist from the fifties to the sixties into a kind of anglo-american „subcultural glamour“.
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It´s a Man´s World
2006 |
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| Most important is, how this quotation of the James Brown song continues: „...but it ain´t nothing without a woman...“.
Man develops the decisive ideas, acts and executes - woman has to carry the burden of the results.
Key words: Gloriole, Nimbus, Cross, Hiroshima, Atom Dome, christian charity, buddhist altruism, phallic symbol, ejaculation, women´s lib sign, Pietà. |
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In medias res
2006 |
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| From out of the middle - getting down to the nitty gritty.
Laokoon (and his sons. as a symbolic group) is quoted very often as a symbol for entanglement.
In this case: being entangled or ensnared into medial („virtual“) reality, respectively the question about the „definite“ reality if our everyday life is usually shaped by medial „fake“:
Television, film and computer offer an own reality, which we have to take on with an extensive part of experience and perception in our everyday life. A forced embeddedness into an inevitable element of presence.
Formally the scenery concerns fusion and dissolution: the group of figures dissolves into the background, Laokoon decomposes into different materials of the evironment (jade, glass, air). background elements continue in the figures, snakes arise from environmental details etc... |
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Dry
2007 |
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| An idea of the calm in virtual language, image and communication.
Key words: Ship, vehicle, wreck, Babel Tower, processor, circuit board, digital, virtual reality, image, imagination, language, expression, communication, ebb tide, calm, doldrums, recession, stranded, run dry. |
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Killer Bird
2008 |
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| A digital reminiscence to the airplane „Enola Gay“, which carried the atom bombs to japan in world war two (to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki). |
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Verkuendigung (Annunciation)
2008 |
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| Collaged from various fractal shapes and textures, this digital work returnes to a kind of "classical" composition for the scenery´s genre.
According to a motto or mission like: "out of random and chaos - back to an archaic sujet" I would like to call it "a kind of fractal baroque" .
It also plays with aspects of distance or a thumbnail view, where a rough impression (the first glance) shows something, that changes anamorphically under close view. |
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| Studied arts and music in Bremen from 1979 to 1985. A couple of small exhibitions in Bremen since the relaunch of more art activities in the last years. | |
| Website: www.artwork-store.de | |
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