Photo by a young, talented photographer in my studio - copyright ©Tatjana Jule Schenk.

Painting: Fields of Dreams, 2013.

 

Inspiring book of poems "Duende" by Tracy K. Smith

History

Prologue

This is a poem about the itch
That stirs a nation at night.

This is a poem about all we'll do
Not to scratch-

Where fatigue is great, the mind
Will invent entire stories to protect sleep.

Dark stories. Deep fright.
Syntax of nonsense.

Our prone shape has slept a long time.
Our night, many nights.

This is a story in the poem's own voice.
This is epic.

Part Three: Occupation

(Excerpt)

Every poem is the story of itself.
Pure conflict. Its own undoing.
Breeze of dreams, then certain death.

Bodylandscapes


In this series of works I am thinking about people and their complex relationships. I painted contemporary society as bunches of bodies churned up in the space, whereby I left the room for different interpretations and ambiguous meanings. Often is hard to distinguish between a battle, explosion, ritual dance and orgy.

Inspiration was one of my favourite Goya's Caprichos (below), as well as my own experiences. Additionally, I had on my mind movies "Zabriskie Point" (M. Antonioni) and "Swimming with Sharks" (G. Huang), after which is one painting named.

Capricho #65, "Where is Mommy going?"

 

Stewing in own Juices, 2013. Oil on canvas, 60x100cm

Swimming with Sharks, 2013. Oil on canvas, 35x45cm

IT'S A GIFT – BERLIN ART FOR CHRISTMAS
13 December 2013 – 10 January 2014

 

OPENING: Friday, 13 December 2013 / 19 h
UNITED ARTS & DESIGN, Augsburgerstr. 39, 10789 Berlin 
Special Guests In Concert: The Hinking Sinking Ladies / 20 h

 

I take part with following small-sized works from the series "Bodylandscapes":

Tame my Flesh, 2013. Oil on canvas, 29x45,5cm

Greedy Dark Bunch, 2013. Oil on canvas, 25x35cm

Mouthful of Darkness, 2013. Oil on canvas, 29x41cm

Earthly Delights, 2013. Oil on canvas, 29x45,5cm

Hot Heads, 2013. Oil on canvas, 29x45cm

 

Bruises and Slush

Bruises and Slush, 2013. Oil on canvas, 150x200cm

Group exhibition "Das ist Walter" from 29.11 to 26.1.2014  in Prima Center Berlin, Biesentaler Strasse 24, 13559 Berlin

The exhibition of ex-Yugoslavian artists in Berlin. Exhibited with.
Below is the article about exhibition from newspapers "Vesti" and three works I take part with.

Swimming with Sharks, 2013. Oil on canvas, 35x45cm

Obscure Swinging, 2010. Oil on canvas, 35x45cm

Own Tears Own Fingertips, 2013. Oil on canvas, 35x45cm

"We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is a God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being."

Hermann Hesse