Artist Research

Artist 4: Franz Ackermann

The Secret Tunnel1999, Oil on Canvas260 x 200cmAckermann’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 canvas125 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.