The picture is to be enlarged and set up as an installation on a plinth in a pedestrian zone or in the entrance area of an urban park. It is to be reproduced enlarged on an acrylic glass pane. Behind this pane, a semi-transparent pane of the same size will be placed at a distance of around 10 cm.
The abstract work is intended to encourage pause and reflection. It visualises ignorance and recklessness. Luxury cars, high-horsepower driving and ego hedonism are destroying the diversity of our environment. The black intersecting and overlapping car tyre tracks dominate. They cover the colours, which can stand for nature, water, but also chemistry or injury.
The painting comes from the series "our own mess".
The unifying stylistic element of the series is the depiction of car tyre treads. An original car tyre was rolled over the back of the film to apply the black paint. For me, the traces of car tyres are symbolic of environmental destruction, car fetish and ignorance.
The submitted work is a reverse side painting on transparent film. The working process is mirror-inverted and the layers of paint are applied in reverse order (similar to reverse glass painting). For me, reverse painting symbolises an unfamiliar way of thinking.
Technical note
The work is supplied without a frame and has no damage or creases. It is attached to the top edge of an aluminium tube with plastic adhesive tape. The picture can be mounted on or in front of a wall using this aluminium tube. If the picture is to be framed, the aluminium tube can be detached from the picture.
In the case of an enlarged reproduction, it could either be repainted or produced as a screen print.
