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Oil, dry pigment & gold leaf on stapled together basswood pieces
37 x 35.5 cm
2026
3 of a series of works around Walter Benjamin's 'Angel of History'. It seems highly pertinent once again to the dark times we are currently living through. 'The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm.'
Oil, dry pigment & gold leaf on stapled together basswood pieces
37 x 35.5 cm
2026
3 of a series of works around Walter Benjamin's 'Angel of History'. It seems highly pertinent once again to the dark times we are currently living through. 'The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm.'