Fvck Vanitas
- Categories Experience, Painting
Hendrick Goltzius’ copper engraving “homo bulla” from 1594 with the inscription “qvis evadet” = who can escape (death) combined with the todays graffiti style and the so associated need of a graffiti artist – could also say human need to be seen, to be valid, to leave something behind – to protest against the threatened vanity and to defy it against all oppressiv probability.
See here a list of all steps of the process:
| 1. Choosing the base art piece on allposters.com | 3 weeks |
| 2. Hanging it on the wall | 0,5 hours |
| 3. Taking in its impressions | 6 weeks |
| 4. Doing an inspirational trip to Leipzig (found “$WIZZ WAS HERE” while attending a flatshare-casting with a friend) | 3 days |
| 5. Finding the right pen (dripstick) with the for me right color to tag on the image | 10 hours |
| 6. Carry the dripstick in my apartment back and forth, because it seems scary and dangerous in the vicinity of the expensive oak parquet | 2 days |
| 7. Forgetting about everything | 4 month |
| 8. Suddenly grabbing the picture | 1 minute |
| 9. Tagging on it | 10 seconds
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Total: 6 month 1 week 5 days 10 hours 31 minutes 10 seconds
QVIS EVADET?
Flos novus, et verna fragrans argenteus aura /Marcescit subito, perit, ali, perit illa venustas. / Sic et vita hominum iam nunc nascentibus, cheu, / Instar abit bullas vanitas elapsa vaporis.
Die frische Blume, leuchtend im Frühling und duftend, verwelkt plötzlich und die Schönheit vergeht schnell. So vergeht auch das Leben der eben Geborenen und entflieht gleich einer Seifenblase aus leerem Dunst.
MARKUS WAS HERE
