Pictures of pain – Andreas Felger Kulturstiftung

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PICTURES OF PAIN

Russia’s war against Ukraine determines our reality, the news and media images of our days and the imagination of the consequences of this war for people. They are images of pain – on the screens and in our heads. The current changes after decades of inner-European peace (even if this term often meant “Cold War” and left out civil wars) gave us reason to look at such images in the œuvre of Andreas Felger, whose fundamentally positive perception of the world determines many of his works, which thematise conflicts, pain and suffering.

The artist has worked out the uncertainty of the future, the vulnerability of the body, guilt and grace in the texts of the Bible, quarrels in couple relationships and many other themes. For the most part, he lets the material speak in order to show the dissonant and the painful: Scratches in leaves, perforations in books, cuts in the wood of sculptures. But in painting, too, landscapes, portraits and abstract compositions become images of hurt. They are pictures of powerlessness, struggle and woundedness. – PICTURES OF PAIN.

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