jeno andre raatzsch

My art is action: it is not a goal but a tool. It helps me to reach completeness, where art is no longer needed. It is when I do not need art that I know I have reached completeness.
What is completeness? It is accepting opposites, experiencing universality, re-evaluating values.

What is action? I use the word not in its common sense, but to denote “the doing of life”; action need not be awe-inspiring or herculean; its point is its infinite simplicity, which outshines all kinds of artistic action. Everyone has their roots. Man is no different from other living creatures. Compare humans and trees: they all gain their nourishment from the earth, but they also need care in the “upper region,” without which they cannot grow; we humans are responsible for our own care. This is the moment when harmony comes into being. (...)

jeno andre raatzsch
Jenő André Raatzsch | photo: the artist

Works

vardo looking glass

My Mother's Apron, 2005
copperplate, mixed media
100 x 60 x 3 cm, collection of the artist
photo: Jenő André Raatzsch
vardo looking glass

Sommersault, 2005 (detail)
photo: Jenő André Raatzsch

vardo looking glass

Sommersault, 2005

mixed media, 300 x 90 x 35 cm, collection of the artist
photo: Jenő André Raatzsch

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