“As a traveler through cultures doing collage ‘on the road,’ I carried my works in suitcases on a Greyhound bus or walking with them over the Las Americas bridge in El Paso or cruising with my black Mercedes through the Balkan states, developing them from one spot to the other. My motifs for this exhibition were based on internet research on Oregon and Portland since I had never been there. Historic and scenic images were the base of new pencil and ink drawings such as Chief Joseph, Mount Hood, and Portland Punk in combination with motifs of the close to Berlin war threat of the Ukraine / Russian war such as The Big Blast, Ukrainian Soldier or earlier works like War Goddess. Motifs such as the cacti, entitled Power Plant 1-20, have traveled with me since my encounters with them in Arizona and the Chihuahuan desert.

I preserve and reactivate ‘cultural finds’ such as product materials and save resources by transforming vehicles and other machines into art sculptures in my ‘Farm & Distillery’ or by reactivating them in their function in order to rethink excessive disposable new production. Preserving these cultural finds from my travels or surroundings (e.g. magazines, photos, posters, books, notes) and combining them with current product materials including painting and drawing recontextualizes and reflects the past, the present, and the possible future.

Inspired by social and cultural phenomena, history, the history of painting, the environment, and film, I create my version of drawing and painting, where I mix different worlds to create a contemporary discourse.”

www.marcussendlinger.de / @marcussendlinger