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In this artwork I got to combine some of my favourite tools: hot glue, neon color, fabric, oddity, provocation and plastic. I got the idea and inspiration by a picture I found of a nacked black woman, wearing the typical KKK mask and holding the burning cross. A condradiction within that I took to create my version of this image. The body is formed out of hot glue, in a relief style that creates a three-dimensional look and plastic depht. For the background I worked with a fabric by my favourite designer Alexander Henry. The flames of the cross take over the whole picture in strong colors. Im in love with the hot and cold effect of the typography. I added it to play with bold cold colors for the perfect contrast. There is even more going on with the K´s: The foundation of the letters are pictures by the artist Spencer Tunick. Who is famous for his temporary installations of nacked human bodys. To this image of human flesh I assembled small railroad-modelling-figures – burning in neon-glue hellfire. This kind of modelling figures are from the 60ths, which was the peak time of the Ku-Klux-Klan in the last century. A smack of actual history and reality. But in this picture the supressors have to pay for their unethical values and got sent to hell. Karma strikes back.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Born as an art junkie and managed to rise, evolve and shape shift, the Godfather of Plastic improved his art of making art. His speciality have always been unconvential materials. His weapons are his hot glue guns - and he knows how to handle those. The Godfather of Plastic, who also goes by the name Herr Karl (Mr. Karl), started out as the Godfather of Fimo. His sculptures and installations are still to be found as nightclub interior. But nowadays also galerys got an eye on the diverse range of creations by the G.o.P.; Due to his modest lifestyle Herr Karl is in the lucky position where he doesn't have to rely on selling his art, but he is thrilled to show his „puppies“ to a broader audience via Saatchi Art. Being able to spend his time on creating his thoughts into art is is greatest joy and passion. The artists identity is fragmentary, flexible and versatile. These are the characteristics of his personification as the Godfather Of Plastic (G.o.P.) and the precondition for the metamorphosis of construction material to sculpture. Hot glue being the additive for activating his materials and breaking the compound of art with fabric: plastic becomes art. The artworks are flashy, whimsical, close to absurd. They embody their own motto „proud to be different“ in perfection, as a reference that the world is even more flashy, bizzare and in fact absurd. Material, substance, sculpture, structures, constructions, a gamble of identity, shapeable art, heteronym. A product made of macromolecules and additives, based on the fusion of monomeres, branched and unbranched polymeres, built by application and texturing.
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