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„Ikonen
2.0 –
Two ikonicons about love“ 2002
(2 x 20 x 30cm, oil on canvas)
con-painting is used but rarely in contemporary art; if it is honoured at all, then in the design of costume jewellery. The emotional and ethical ambitions which are reflected in icons, however, keep on living under changed auspices. Hence the idea suggests itself to decorate two examples of this genre with (in this case respectively two) representatives of our time. For this update, two icons of the Macedon Renaissance, i.e. more or less from the 10th century PC, have been chosen. On these icons the motifs of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Carmel (in the eyes of his disciple, Jesus turns into a figure of light) and the handing over of the Tablets to Moses.
Both pictures have been encircled by relevant passages from the Bible in Greek, namely an extract from the Song of Songs and another extract from 1 Corinthians (on the equality of the peoples and of the sexes). In front of the icons pictures have been painted of really existing couples in order to symbolize the contents: on the one hand a couple in which the man is dedicated to a messianic existence as divorce lawyer; on the other hand a racially mixed couple which has withstood racist enmity by its strong belonging together.
Two ikonicons about love“ 2002
(2 x 20 x 30cm, oil on canvas)
con-painting is used but rarely in contemporary art; if it is honoured at all, then in the design of costume jewellery. The emotional and ethical ambitions which are reflected in icons, however, keep on living under changed auspices. Hence the idea suggests itself to decorate two examples of this genre with (in this case respectively two) representatives of our time. For this update, two icons of the Macedon Renaissance, i.e. more or less from the 10th century PC, have been chosen. On these icons the motifs of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Carmel (in the eyes of his disciple, Jesus turns into a figure of light) and the handing over of the Tablets to Moses.
Both pictures have been encircled by relevant passages from the Bible in Greek, namely an extract from the Song of Songs and another extract from 1 Corinthians (on the equality of the peoples and of the sexes). In front of the icons pictures have been painted of really existing couples in order to symbolize the contents: on the one hand a couple in which the man is dedicated to a messianic existence as divorce lawyer; on the other hand a racially mixed couple which has withstood racist enmity by its strong belonging together.