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INDIVIDUAL WORKS:
AFGHAN DIALOGS - silk embroideries
IRAQ DIALOGS - fired ceramic tiles
ARAB DIALOGS - fired ceramic tiles
NEWS PAINTINGS - Acrylic on canvas
BICYCLING DAMASCUS - video
HOMELAND SECURITY - video
INSTALLATION VIEWS - installation views
 

 

POSTCARDS - Please, teach me Arabic (Famous Austrians)
POSTCARDS - FREEDOM FRIES STAMPS ETC.
WAR ON TERROR - ball-point pen drawings
BASIC ARABIC - photographs
BASIC ARABIC - MY FIRST 500 HOURS BASIC, ARABIC / MY SECOND 500 HOURS BASIC ARABIC
The New York Times - drawings
TEXTS:

Francesco Manacorda - Filtering Newss

Paul Mattick - POSTCARDS

Rainer Ganahl - ROAD TO WAR Ð The Burning Of History Gone Evil Onto A Pathetic External Hard Drive

 

Searching "Terrorism" on Google.com - wall painting

 

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according the reflection on the floor and the top.. there is more to come....


'War on Terror,' 'Axis of Evil' or 'Freedom fries'... drawings 2003 - 2005

One day - hopefully soon, we will be able to refer to these drawings in the past form as 'THE GEORG W. BUSH YEARS'


These drawings are made with ball pen. The technique is inspired by Alegiero Boettis aircraft ball pen drawings and not by a famous Belgian artist. Notice that also Andy Warhol has use ball pens and many others.


The ball pen is a bureaucratic, non-artistic kind of medium and easy to handle. It is used here in a catatonic and semi-nervous way, releasing an esthetic charm that borders on madness. For me ball pens create intensities and build psychological profiles in the way, left over coffee does, thought he we do it with our hand. Given the work intensive quality of these drawings, only a few I did with my own hand. Others are done by assistants -- thanks to all of them -- and are outsourced. It is mind-bugling to see how each drawing looks different and can be misread as a psychogram - at least for people with graphological imaginary.
I have recycled these drawings for a special artistic "US postal service stamp parody" to commemorate contemporary tragic history.

POSTCARDS - FREEDOM FRIES STAMPS ETC.

 

 

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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Axis of Evil, 2003

11 x 14 inch; 28 x 35.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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Shock and Awe, 2003

9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -

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Enemy Compattant, 2003

11 x 14 inch; 28 x 35.5 cm -red ball pen drawing on paper -

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US Patriot Act, 2003

11 x 14 inch; 28 x 35.5 cm -red ball pen drawing on paper -

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Evil Doers, 2003

11 x 14 inch; 28 x 35.5 cm -red ball pen drawing on paper -

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Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004

11 x 14 inch; 28 x 35.5 cm -red ball pen drawing on paper -

 

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this would be the order - and is in the exhibition

9/11, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

AlQaeda, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

War on Terror, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inchesr

Rogue State, 2005 work on paper , 11 x 14 inch=es

Evil Doers, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Axis of Evil, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Afghanistan, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Operation Enduring Freedom, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Enemy Combatant, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Homeland Security, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Patriot Act, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Weapons of Mass Distruction, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Old Europe, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Freedom fries, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Shock and Awe, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches

Extraordinary Rendition, 2005

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