Mantras

Started in 2001, ongoing project, direct impact from 9/11 2001 and The Love Works.
Various sizes, any Mantra can be commissioned.
Steel, 24ct gold leaf.

greek / turkish

arabic / hebrew

prepared so far to create:

greek / turkish (as above)
hebrew / arabic (as above)
amharic (Ethiopia) / tigrinya (Eritrea)
spanish / euskara (Basque)
singalese / tamil (both Sri Lanka)
tibetan / chinese

Nänie

Totenklage oder Trauergesang im Alten Rom.

Ein Gedicht von Friedrich Schiller, das vertont wurde von Johannes Brahms zum Andenken an den Maler Anselm Feuerbach.

Ich habe mir erlaubt, einen Buchstaben zu entfernen, um die Aussage zu modifizieren.
50 x 60 cm.

Photos von David Nassim.

Acryl und Kohle auf Leinwand

Acryl und 24ct Blattgold auf Leinwand

Stahlweiber - Steel Dames

frontal perspective

frontal perspective

back perspective

gunhild

bronze cast
'mother' of the 'wilde hilde' (see this blogpost)
approx 7cm high, full cast or hollow cast.
3/8, 8/8 available.

vladimir

vladimir: approx. 13cm high and 1,2kg heavy.
full bronze cast.








available are no. 2/8 - 8/8

side view, pic by david nassim

masters raving madness

once upon a time, when my heart was in search for the right path to follow, I decided to do an apprenticeship as a blacksmith to broaden my skills and knowledge for my sculptures. I got a place at a posh craftsmans company and started.

I very soon was forced to realize, that my work 'masters raving madness', that I had made a year before, was visionary..

sometimes it does not feel too good, to be confirmed.

Wide Screen Buddha

Wide Screen Buddha

Nowadays a religious stimulus satiation cannot be avoided, no matter where you try to escape to.
We see mullahs online or on TV shows, we all have already heard of those funny TV preachers you cross every now and then in US Television, and some hindu priest will definitely tell you on an indian broadcast what Hanuman or Ganesha suggests to do.

Infront of this background I wondered how a Bodhisattva would act, when he finds himself in front of a TV camera, being asked for a sermon…
…and I had this image of him bursting out in laughter and telling everyone to just enjoy life, not taking yourself too seriously and laugh out loud when you catch yourself being stuck in old patterns.

To transform this image into my language, I chose nine equally shaped steel blocks, and arranged them into a video installation format, with an approximate 16:9 proportion, and added my sign in 24ct gold leaf on the upper left block, just as if ‘I’ would be CNN or Al Jazeera or ..

So when you install your Wide Screen Buddha, please put a candle and incense sticks underneath the installation, and adjoin some nice flowers. You will find out that when you take some minutes in front of him, a smile will sneak onto your face and your mood -no matter how dark it might have been before- will lighten up real quick…

The Wide Screen Buddha exists so far in approx 90 x 105 x 2 cm (above) and in 150 x 260 x 1 cm (below).

Gaieté and Je-ne-sais-pas-quoi

Gaieté, 2002
Steel

100 x 100 x 1 cm

Je ne sais pas quoi, 2002
Steel

100 x 100 x 1cm

Bourrée Sorcière and The Fence Riders

Bourrée Sorcière, 2006

steel, 24ct gold leaf
approx. 180 x 180 x 1cm

Bourrée Sorcière, front view

Bourrée Sorcière and The Fence Riders, side view

It is the year 1952 ... Alexej Sacharoff looks back to a fulfilled artists’ life in dance, stage and costume design as well as painting. Nearly fifty years he performed and produced formidable art pieces. At that time he still continues creating more celebrated works, and after a lifetime of travelling and moving around the globe he settles down in Rome. Then he scetches another choreography onto a paper, the ‘bourée fantasque’... 

... 53 years later, I found the scetch in a book while doing research on Alexej and Clothilde Sacharoff, the famous dancers couple. They have been in the surroundings of ‘Der Blaue Reiter’ (‘The Blue Rider’) and members of ‘Neue Künstlervereinigung München’ which both have been trailblazing artists groups, developing abstract art and Expressionism. Members of those artist groups have been Wassily Kandinsky, Thomas von Hartmann, Gabriele Münter, Marianne von Werefkin and others.

As dance and dancers are deeply inspiring for my work, I loved it straight away. 

I translated the choreography into my formal language and developed 'The Fence Riders’ and their

Matrix, ‘Bourrée Sorcière’, where the score is leaf gilded on.

The Fence Riders, still in progress