What Does Sin Taste Like?How’s the sin?
On Images, Flavours and the Emergence of CONVIVIUM It began with the seven deadly sins. I wanted to depict pride, […]
Studio Notes
How you look at modern art – thoughts from a Studio
How to Look at Modern Art There is a moment that occurs with remarkable regularity in galleries devoted to modern
The Disappearance of Shadows
Curiously, shadows are slowly disappearing from our visual culture. Not only from photography, but from images in general. Pictures are
When the world was still readable
A few years ago, I was standing in front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna with a group of friends.
Of the old suspicion
The history of technological innovation follows a remarkably consistent pattern. First, people insist something will never work. And the moment
As ideas emerge
People actually ask me quite often where my ideas come from. Which creative techniques I use. Whether I work with
When Does Art Stop Being Art?
Perhaps the valued reader has noticed that public debates repeatedly flare up around the question of what art is —
About my handwriting more than mere writing
Perhaps the valued reader has already encountered my handwriting in various entries within these Cogitationes. Whether in guestbook entries at
Max Herrmann-Neiße
There are poets one admires.And there are poets who slowly take root somewhere inside one’s own thinking. Max Herrmann-Neiße belongs,
Ten Sentences for People Who Want to Sound Intelligent at Openings
A small survival guide for those who find themselves—by accident or by intention—somewhere between art and prosecco. (This text is