DE

Original Guru

Each work of the series "Original Guru" is named after the title of the series, a monogram and a year. One may get the impression, that they have seen some of these gentlemen before, but the title of the paintings does not help to identify the person.

For many centuries, the task of the painted portrait was to document the person depicted in an identifiable way, to make him or her a remembered person in the first place through the image. Today, photography has largely taken over this task. This confronts painting with the question of whether it has become obsolete, or whether it can convey something beyond depictability. Stefan à Wengen confronts this question in this series. For these works, he first collaged photographs and then recast them in paintings: The natural person of the sitter thus has been more and more alienated towards the final portrait. Throughout the process of painting, à Wengen has not only created a new person, he has allowed a new original to emerge from a falsification, thus exploring the possibilities and varieties of painting in itself.

Original Guru PK
Original Guru PK, 2017
Original Guru RS
Original Guru RS, 2017
Original Guru BN
Original Guru BN, 2017
Original Guru FB
Original Guru FB, 2017
Original Guru JP
Original Guru JP, 2017
Original Guru AW
Original Guru AW, 2014
Original Guru SP
Original Guru SP, 2014
Original Guru FB
Original Guru FB, 2014
Original Guru EH
Original Guru EH, 2014
Original Guru EM
Original Guru EM, 2014
Original Guru JB
Original Guru JB, 2014
Original Guru KM
Original Guru KM, 2014
Original Guru ME
Original Guru ME, 2014
Original Guru MK
Original Guru MK, 2014
Original Guru MR
Original Guru MR, 2014
More
xs
sm
md
lg
xl
Cookies

By using this website you automatically accept that we use cookies. To find out more, read our privacy policy.

footerSpm