1. Artist Research
Artist 4: Franz Ackermann
The Secret Tunnel
1999, Oil on Canvas
260 x 200cm
Ackermann’s cityscape is information overload: a seething
metropolis striated in Technicolor glory. Grey modernist
architecture looms at an unnatural angle, engulfed in retro-style
smog, while an inverted stairway to heaven descends into the open
earth below.
Ackermann paints his underworld as a spacey utopia: fiery blobs
of magma swell with hypnotic seduction, revealing a virgin
landscape at their core. The Secret Tunnel is not a paradise, but an
upper and middle earth equally and oppositely attractive.
Evasion XVI (the disaster) - 1998
Acrylic on cotton
red, full on – 2005.
Oil on canvas
125 x 155 cm.
How this artist's work relates to mine is that he did abstracts of buildings using bold
colours and other images, making a collage. I also would like to do something like
this.