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From Conversations With Tourniketow's Sons:
A Nostalgic Allegory Originals for sale

Year: 2018

Medium: Mixed media

Named after an East German children's TV show «Mach mit, Mach's nach, Mach's besser», this exhibition took place in a Brutalist building that used to host Australia's embassy to DDR. The TV program was light and sporty, so I thought why stand apart?

This work assembled itself in my mind during a 200 km brevet bike race, in a trance-like state: a narrative about an amateur athlete who was used to inventing his own sports but had to sacrifice this liberty in order to «professionalize». This, I thought, was an apt allegory of what we face today as artists...

Techniques

Watercolor Whitewashed OCB board with Oracal vinyl

Inspiration

Brevet on a fixed gear bike

Interested in this work?

Originals drawings available

Related Works

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

2018 • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Laughter in the Gallery

In Search for Realism with Herluf Bidstrup

2015 • Gallery Art Shabolovka

Bike Taxi

Bike Taxi

2013 • Various Venues