Of Course I Still Love You

​With my recent paintings in "Of Course I Still Love You" I keep floating between fiction and reality. Influenced by Science Fiction adventures, the continuous search for new worlds, the current rapid developments in space travel and exploration, and the ground breaking discoveries in science. Dreams about new ways of living are now being developed by today's scientists and engineers to create a new reality for tomorrow. Looking back at the fantasies and dreams of the past and their idea about their future inspires me to dream and fantasize about our new possibilities, undiscovered worlds and the research and journey towards them. A big part of my recent work therefore focuses as well on another perspective; the backstage, the intense preparations, the unseen exercises and many test phases that precede the adventures and discoveries.

The title of the show and the homonymous exhibited painting is, in addition to being strong, energetic and hopeful, also a reference and tribute to a drone ship and a large landing platform controlled by a fully autonomous robot that was commissioned by SpaceX, for the landing back of the booster engines of the rockets that lift off to space – a milestone achievement for the future space exploration and our upcoming trips to the Red Planet and further. He, in turn, derived the name from the science fiction novel "The Player of Games" by Ian M. Banks and thus fiction keeps creating reality which in turn continues influencing fiction.

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Exhibition text (2019 - 2020)