Minu's Art

Hello

2012-03-07T21:54:00.000+01:00

Fabric, wax, acrylic paint and wire fence on canvas; 50 x 70cm; March 2012

Heart

2012-02-10T19:03:00.002+01:00

Heart (cloth, wax, cardboard, acrylic on hardboard, 60 x 80 cm; February 2012)

This was inspired by the move "Melancholia" by Lars von Trier. One of the sisters tells the other, twice during the movie: "Sometimes I just hate you so much.".. I just liked this sentence, being said from one loving person to the other.

Josef's Reise / Josef's Journey

2012-02-09T20:09:00.000+01:00

Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120cm, February 2012

Couple feathers

2012-02-04T11:03:00.003+01:00

Couple feathers (edited digital photograph; February 2012)

couple mm

2012-02-03T17:15:00.000+01:00

couple mm (black feathers, feltpen, acrylic on canvas; 50 x 70cm, February 2012)

Couple angels.stones / Paar Engel.Steine

2012-02-01T00:00:00.001+01:00

Stones and wings on wood, August 2011

Photos: Christian Kind

Couple red.sea

2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+01:00

Couple red.sea, January 2012 (cloth and cardboard on styrofoam, 50 x 120cm)

Threads

2012-01-10T08:12:00.000+01:00

Threads, January 2012

Wings / Flügel

2012-01-02T08:31:00.000+01:00

Wings / Flügel, December 2011 (acrylic paint on hard board and wood; wings, 60,5 x 80,5cm)

Couple red.white / Paar rot.weiss

2011-12-06T23:05:00.001+01:00

Couple red.white / Paar rot.weiss (cardboard, canvas, styrofoam board; wallpaint, acrylic paint; ca 64 x 32 cm; December 2011)

Fashionable

2011-11-20T16:08:00.001+01:00

Fashionable (wallpaint on hard board; wood; money; string; glitter; 60 x 80cm; November 2011)

Family / Familie

2011-11-19T13:03:00.001+01:00

Family / Familie (fabric figurines on styrofoam; wall and acrylic paint; ca 40 x 120cm; November 2011)

Ladder / Leiter

2011-11-19T12:51:00.001+01:00

Ladder / Leiter (wood, wall and acrylic paint, rings, money, syringe, stone, feather; card board background; ca 70 x 90cm; November 2011)

(an older version)

2011-11-14T08:41:00.001+01:00

Couple, quietly

Details from 'leise / quietly' printed on canvas (40 x 60cm; October 2011)

Born. Never Asked. Free.

2011-10-16T14:01:00.000+02:00

There's a beautiful song by Laurie Anderson: "Born. Never Asked.", which partly inspired this.
I also thought about calling this triptych "What love can do to you".

Couple

2011-09-06T09:16:00.001+02:00

Couple / Paar (wallpaint, acrylic and water colour on hard board, plaster, card board and various materials; 80 x 60cm; August 2011)

the house

2011-06-14T17:11:00.002+02:00

the house (wallpaint and acrylic on styrofoam and cardboard; 41 x 34 cm; June 2011)

the house: details

i beat you. i hold you.

2011-06-09T19:53:00.003+02:00

i beat you

(coal, acrylic, knife and money on canvas; 30 x 42cm; June 2011)

i hold you
(coal, acrylic and money on canvas; 30 x 42cm; June 2011)

Priceless

2011-04-16T13:33:00.004+02:00

Priceless, April 2011 (wall paint, acrylic, wood, cardboard, and paper copies on wood; 60 x 80cm)

If everything has a price, nothing is priceless...

Butterflies, dying

2011-03-10T08:05:00.005+01:00

Butterflies, dying. March 2011 (paper copies, money and acrylic paint on wood; 42,5 x 60 cm)

Butterflies, dying - detail

Butterflies, dissected

2011-02-22T19:02:00.003+01:00

Butterflies, dissected. February 2011 (paper copies, felt pen colouring, glue and wallpaint on wood; three times 30 x 42,5 cm)

Butterflies, dissected - detail

Angst

2011-02-13T14:30:00.008+01:00

Angst, February 2011 (string, acrylic paint, glue, wax, nails, and match on hard board; 60,5 x 80,5 cm)

Money Wins

2011-02-09T10:16:00.006+01:00

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Money Wins, February 2011 (cardboard, bank notes, screws, wall paint and acrylic paint on hard board; 107 x 67 cm)

What God Wants

2011-01-19T17:05:00.007+01:00

What God Wants, January 2011 (acrylic, wallpaint, string, and paper on wood; 60,5 x 52,5 cm)

This was inspired by Roger Waters' song: What God Wants, Part II, on the album Amused to Death, 1992. I love this album, and all the rest from Waters, and Pink Floyd.
The lyrics to this particular song can be found here.

And they include:

"God wants dollars
God wants cents
God wants pounds shillings and pence
God wants guilders
God wants kroner
God wants Swiss francs
God wants French francs
Oui il veut des francs francais
God wants escudos
God wants pesetas
Don't send lira
God don't want small potatoes"

(You can find clips of Waters performing the song on youtube - but you won't be able to view it in some countries.)

What God Wants: detail

Leise / quietly (black; white)

2011-01-19T12:40:00.006+01:00

Leise / quietly, black, November 2010 (acrylic and wallpaint on wood, cardboard; 43 x 60 cm)

Leise / quietly white, January 2011 (acrylic and wallpaint on wood, cardboard; 43 x 60 cm)

This was inspired by a poem by Hilde Domin:

Nicht muede werden

Nicht muede werden
sondern dem Wunder
leise
wie einem Vogel
die Hand hinhalten.

(Not tiring / Not tiring / but quietly / holding out the hand / towards the miracle / like to a bird)

When I sent it to my friend Bill Mankin, this was his response:

As I look back
I see an impression I have left behind.
It is not all that I am.
In fact, it is not very much of me.
Only handprints on a dark pane of glass.
No light for anyone to see.
Fading fast.
No one there to notice.
Only a bird,
Gazing above them.
But there she is in all her blazing glory.
For a moment, they share the dark world together.
It’s a miracle.

(© Bill Mankin, 2 Dec 2010)

In the beginning of January, I kept looking at the black painting and asked myself how it would look in white... so I did that. Having them both together, and reading Bill's poem, reminds me of a piece by Rainer Maria Rilke, where he talks about love consisting of keeping watch at the border of the loved one's loneliness.

(leise / quietly white: detail; acrylic and wallpaint on wood, cardboard; January 2011)

White ones

2011-01-12T14:00:00.009+01:00

White ones: group, December 2010 (wallpaint and water colours on cardboard and wood; 30 x 42 cm and 42 x 60 cm)

White ones: group, January 2011

White ones: group

White ones: leaves

White ones: tree

White ones: lion

White ones: rabbit

White ones: elephant

White ones: whale

White ones: seahorse

White ones: seahorse, detail

White ones: bird

White ones: bird, detail

Dreams and reality. Reality and dreams.

2011-01-03T21:00:00.004+01:00

Dreams and reality. Reality and dreams, January 2011 (wall paint and acrylic on plastic, wood, string; stones; 42 x 60cm)

Dreams and reality: title detail

Dreams and reality: detail

Line 1

2011-01-02T14:00:00.003+01:00

Line 1, January 2011 (wallpaint on canvas, string and modeling clay; 30 x 42 cm)

Wave

2010-11-15T11:08:00.002+01:00

Wave, October 2010 (wallpaint, water colour and print on, cardboard and various materials, on wood; 34 x 46 cm)

Wave: back

Wave: detail

Wave: detail

This was inspired by Patti Smith's song "Wave".
You can find this beautiful song on youtube but only in certain countries :-(
Here's a page where you can listen to the first half: http://welike.com/details/Wave/2868755

Here's the complete lyrics:

Patti Smith: Wave (1979)

hi. hi. i was running after you for a long time.
i i was watching you from. . .
actually I've watched you for a long time.
i like to watch you when you're walking
back and forth on the beach.
and the way your the way your cloth looks.
i like i like to see the edges
-the bottom of it-
get all wet when you're walking near the water there.
it's real nice to talk to you.
i didn't. i-i-i-i-i . . . how are you? how are you?
(oh albino)
i saw i saw you from your balcony window
and you were standing there waving at everybody
it was really great because there was about
a billion people there, but when i was waving to you,
uh, the way your face was, it was so, the way your face was
it made me feel exactly like we're
it's not that you were just waving to me, but
that we were we were waving to each other.
really it was really wonderful
i really felt happy
it really made me happy
and. um. i. i just wanted to thank you
because
you
you really really you made me
you made me feel good
and
oh i, it's nothing.
i um. i. well i'm just clumsy.
yeah.
no, it's just a bandaid.
no, it's ok.
oh no, i'm always doing
something's always happening to me
yeah. well. i'll be seein' ya.
goodbye. bye.

wave thou art pretty.
wave thou art high
wave thou are music
wave thou are white
(oh albino)
(oh albino)
wave thou art high
(wave thou art pretty)
wave to the city
wave
goodbye.
goodbye sir.
goodbye papa.

That's all

2010-10-10T08:44:00.001+02:00

That's all, October 2010 (wallpaint and acrylic on canvas, hardboard, various other materials; 40 x 100 cm)

That's all: love

That's all: freedom

That's all: death

Kisses

2010-09-19T15:19:00.001+02:00

Kisses, September 2010 (acrylic on canvas and paper, string, nails; 30 x 33 cm)