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Klaus Killisch

Klaus Killisch

Where Is My Mind?

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Context

Drawing has always been an important part of Klaus Killischs work process. He can realize pictorial ideas faster and more playfully. He is fascinated by the reduction to the line and the omission of non-essentials.

For the last few years he has been drawing a lot with pen and ink on A4 paper. This has resulted in an open series entitled “My Generation”. Inspirations from music, advertising and art history have been incorporated here. “Where Is My Mind?” is one of them. The music from the album “Surfer Rosa” by the Pixies was playing while he was drawing.

Instructions

Listen to the music of The Pixies while looking at the tattoo

  • Colour

    Ideally two-coloured as in the design (black/blue), but it doesn't necessarily have to be.

  • Position

    Free. Where it looks good.

  • Scalable

    Yes

About Klaus Killisch

(*1959 Wurzen, DE) Klaus Killisch studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. His neo-expressive style and his motifs inspired by punk, rock and pop were considered subversive during the GDR era. His style of breaking up and overlapping categories is characteristic of his work. Killisch repeatedly succeeds in presenting complicated themes in painting in an amusingly effortless way. He was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1990 and has had many international exhibitions since then.

Fun fact

One of his most important works is on display in the new permanent exhibition “A Collection for the 21st Century” at the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart hanging right opposite of one by Martin Kippenberger, although the hanging is not following alphabetical order.