When I came to Cairo 5 years ago I was
looking for a continuation of my artistic work.
As in my former 7 years living in Spain, I
wanted to react to the visual reality of this
country. The idea was to connect my stored
European visual world with optical sensations of
Egypt. For 2 years I studied the Pharaonic
heritage and worked with its forms and shapes in
my paintings and experimental prints. It
culminated in my exhibition “IN TUT’S BANDAGES”
at the Egyptian Museum Cairo in 2007.
Then for the next 2 years I dedicated my work
to views on Islamic Art in Cairo with all its
characteristics. Thereby I produced my recent
series “FRAGMENTS” in which I intended a fusion
of my European-affected visual world with the
found works of Islamic Art in mosques, on walls,
in and on palaces, in daily life.
In my works I try to unify two opposite
styles: gestural painting and colour-field
painting. My passion is to find own ways of
printmaking und to mix different techniques as
painting with printing and newly with digital
pictures.
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