Series: Zucht und Ordnung

Installation consisting of 16 paintings representing eight endangered animal species,
displayed on a 14 m-long wall, listing 578 species in critical danger of extinction.
Each animal is presented in anthropometric form, face and profile.
Dimensions of each painting: approx. 70cm x 100cm.
Mixed media: linen canvas on compressed wood, veneers, collages, prints, Acrylic paint.
Installation overview:

Gorilla Beringei Beringei

Acrylic on wood, mixed media

dimensions:  70x100cm+70x100cm

Neophron Percnoperus

Acrylic on wood, mixed media

dimensions:  70x100cm+70x100cm

Panthera Tigris

Acrylic on wood, mixed media

dimensions:  70x100cm+70x100cm

Cheilinus undulatus

Acrylic on wood, mixed media

dimensions:  70x100cm+70x100cm

File, classify, condemn and destroy.
Outlawed.

Every country, in every era, has its designated enemies.
For some: blacks, Jews, for others: Arabs, Romanians or whatever….
There’s always a reason for police files, a reason for the death penalty.
Each defines a different particular enemy.
But there is one thing common to all humanity: it’s to file, imprison, pollute and exterminate living things.
When it comes to destroying free and wild nature, we all agree: nature is outlawed.

For over 40 years, the IUCN Red List has been listing endangered species.
In the latest edition of the Global Red List (version 2017.3), of the 91523 species studied, 25821 are classified as threatened and 866 are definitively extinct.