Purchased with assistance from the National Cultural Fund, 2020
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He has been making reliefs in graphite and plaster since the early 2010s by dropping graphite from a predetermined height into malleable plaster and then interfering with the structure created by chance. While working, images like Paolo Uccello’s or Albrecht Aldorfer’s battle scenes “floated in his mind”. Alongside the image of woundedness (wounds in the landscape) evoked by the mental associations of war (spear, arrow), the fragile graphite forests are also metaphors for the transience of human existence.