2022 getting old and tired 2022 is dead
2022, sterbewohl! Eine Studioausstellung leistete in den letzten Tagen von 2022 Sterbebegleitung für ein todkrankes Jahr. Man sagt doch, im letzten Augenblick ziehe das Leben noch mal am inneren Auge vorüber. Analog dazu war die Ausstellung eine offene Schleuse der Bildproduktion. Mit der Logik eines Dämmertraums verwurstete sie Motive meiner Arbeit aus den vergangenen Monaten und allerlei, was in den letzten Tagen des Jahres in der Zeit unterwegs war.
Über drei Wochen hinweg wuchs eine Bilderwelt über Wände, Decke und Boden – ein Adventskalender des Todes: Zur Finissage waren die Lichter bis auf einen Spot auf den letzten Rezipienten ausgeschaltet. Mit ihm verlöschte 2022 im Abend des 15. Januar 2023. (Beerdigungen sind immer später als der Tod.)
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2022, die well! In the last days of 2022, a studio show provided palliative care for a terminally ill year. It‘s said that life flashes before your eyes at the very last moment. Similarly, the show opened the flootgates to erratic image production. Following the logic of a dozy dream, it merged my work‘s subjects of the last months with anything that came across during the last days of the year.
Over the course of three weeks, an imagery grew across walls, ceiling and floor like an Advent calender of death: At the finissage, all lights were switched off except for one spotlight on the last visitor. Together with it, 2022 faded away on the evening of January 15, 2023. (Funerals come always after death.)
(Studio Simon Baumgart, Halle (Saale), 2022, 2023)
Jesus burns
Saxon Christmas pyramid (found object), burned, painted (2022)
Wanderer 1
marker on cardboard, 15 x 10 cm (2022)
Sachsenbarock
window installation based on motifs of the folk art of Saxon miners which are used for Christmas decoration in windows and presumably based on 18th century festive decoration of the Saxon court, cardboard, plywood, plaster, painted (2022)
Figure with hole
cardboard, painted, 34 x 16 cm (2022)
Tired of work
sculpture made of plaster, cardboard, wooden laths, clothing, cable ties, painted, life size (2022)
Wanderer 2
ink on cardboard, life size (2022)
All my tattoos in a parallel universe
sculpture made of plaster, cardboard, cable ties, painted, life size
(2022)
All my tattoos in 2122
sculpture made of cardboard, hay, tape, painted, life size (2022)
Every september in business chats (“I hope you all had wonderful holidays, and you are now in great shape to get back to work”)
oil and ink on canvas and cardboard, 175 x 105 cm (2022)
All my tattoos Nr. 2022
charcoal on digital print, 30 x 20 cm (2022)
Stuffed dog, dead heater
fur, cardboard, hay, 33 x 55 x 25 cm (2022)
Nail clipper
cardboard, plywood, painted, 17 x 15 cm (2022)
I‘ll finish next year
oil on canvas and wall, 190 x 130 cm (2022)
Wanderer in the snow
Saxon Räuchermann = turned wooden figurine (found object), burned, painted, 17 x 6 x 6 cm (2022)
Figure with hole (in)
marker on digital print, 30 x 20 cm (2022)
Heidi Klum Halloween 2022
marker on cardboard, 15 x 10 cm (2022)
Congratulations, you made it to 2023!
ink on floor (2023)
Erzgebirgisches Kurrendekind
wood, pencil 4 x 2 x 2 cm (2022)
Doing nothing 1
marker on cardboard, 15 x 10 cm (2022)
Doing nothing 2
ink and wall paint on cardboard, life size (2022)
The last hour
bronze, watch size (2022)
Injured optimist
ink and tape on cardboard, 34 x 16 cm (2022)
Der letzte Rezipient (the last visitor)
sculpture made of cardboard, plaster, cable ties, painted, life size (2022)
RIP 2022
wood, pencil 2 x 2 x 2 cm (2022)