“As a traveler through cultures doing collages “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 have 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“. Motif ideas such as “cacti“, entitled “Power Plant 1-20” travel with me since my encounters with them in Arizona and North Mexico, Chihuahua 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 "The Farm & Distillery" or reactivating them in their function in order to rethink excessive disposable new production. Preserving these “cultural finds“ from different times on my travels or in my surroundings (magazines, photos, posters, books, notes...) and combining them with current product materials in combination with painting and drawing recontextualizes and reflects the past, the present and the possible future. 

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

www.marcussendlinger.de / @marcussendlinger