Death In And Of Painting

Artworks Katharina Ziemke

It is the sugar-glazed psycho terror of the 2000s. A feminine equivalent to Bisky, Borremans and Rauch, Ziemke is adding the hyper-hyper to magic and/or erotic realism. Artificially sweetened with jelly blood and military fetish.
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Doublet (Comp.)

Peter de Potter I Am An Image Machine, 2011

The ditptych corporation and tumblr über-curator Petter de Potter pairs sexuality with violence and porn with propaganda. Machine versus image. Spit versus shipwrecks. Appropriation to be appreciated - or at least, endlessly consumed.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XII

1. Nick Knight Dior Fall/Winter 2001
2. Nick Knight Research for WAR, 2013
3. Nick Knight WAR, 2013

The POW: Violence as abstract form. Power visualized as liquid splash or electric convulsion. Yet, in those high-velocity pictures, the clash never happens. Nearly ever almost. As if everything just happens theoretically, the human forced by invisible forces.
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