WOLFGANG SAGMEISTER
EDITION „MISERICORDIA“
This edition is the continuation of the work “The seven stations of the Cross” from 2015. The topic now is bodily mercy. The trace to the 6-part cycle led through whole Europe. In this course looking for inspiration, locations of coming together and of consummation were picked as well as locations of poorness and loneliness. The unlimited access to food and living spaces is taken for granted in Europe, our abundance so to say on the one hand. On the other hand we have mercy with people in need and the identification with the person suffering, the dealing with illness and sickness of the body and soul, humanity in isolation, taking care of poorness and loneliness in homelessness. Clothes that keep you warm, food that keeps you fed, helping hands when visiting sick or imprisoned people and a roof over your head show living mercy. Mercy is shown in black and white pictures in this edition. Reducing bright colours and switching to shades of grey puts the focus on the pureness of this work. Reducing the composition to the most substantial items indicates the question of essential watching and discovering in the interested viewer. Renouncing humans in this work channels the focus on the simplest of things. Crossing the puristic shape of language with the form of the cross creates a new level and focus on mercy itself. The Latin translation can be found in the title of this work.
MISERICORDIA Baryta / C-Prints auf Alu-dibond, respectively 42 x 29,7 cm 2022 Artist's property
Link to video Wolfgang Sagmeister minutes 2:00
WOLFGANG SAGMEISTER
EDITION „MISERICORDIA“
This edition is the continuation of the work “The seven stations of the Cross” from 2015. The topic now is bodily mercy. The trace to the 6-part cycle led through whole Europe. In this course looking for inspiration, locations of coming together and of consummation were picked as well as locations of poorness and loneliness. The unlimited access to food and living spaces is taken for granted in Europe, our abundance so to say on the one hand. On the other hand we have mercy with people in need and the identification with the person suffering, the dealing with illness and sickness of the body and soul, humanity in isolation, taking care of poorness and loneliness in homelessness. Clothes that keep you warm, food that keeps you fed, helping hands when visiting sick or imprisoned people and a roof over your head show living mercy. Mercy is shown in black and white pictures in this edition. Reducing bright colours and switching to shades of grey puts the focus on the pureness of this work. Reducing the composition to the most substantial items indicates the question of essential watching and discovering in the interested viewer. Renouncing humans in this work channels the focus on the simplest of things. Crossing the puristic shape of language with the form of the cross creates a new level and focus on mercy itself. The Latin translation can be found in the title of this work.
MISERICORDIA Baryta / C-Prints auf Alu-dibond, respectively 42 x 29,7 cm 2022 Artist's property
Link to video Wolfgang Sagmeister minutes 2:00
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