Ralf Ziervogel - Morlok

We are very pleased to invite you to the solo exhibition of Ralf Ziervogel. Ralf Ziervogel's new work takes the presentation and scale of his gigantic ink drawings to its extreme. The viewer passes through a corridor of drawings of collapsing scaffoldings. These constructions are quotations of his earlier works which all had an underlying construcitions. Then the viewer arrives at a five meter long panorama which unfolds a desaster or accumulating episodes. Protagonist and characters of earlier drawings appear again and meet in new combinations of violance: shaved monkeys, wales, video-artists, fasion victims are united in a circle of destruction. Ziervogel invents a world of excess whose only raison d'être is destruction and vandalism. Any moral definition is negated. Figures, objects or architecture appear in their most potent form. Animals and children are the preferred victims as they emphasize destruction of "now". Ziervogels world is full of brand names and logos. Those quotations of contemporary consumption are no titillation but are meant to show a symptomatic post productive experience.

Ziervogel does not intend to solely picture sex and violence. He attempts to depict a moment of extreme energetic presence and its simultaneous horror vacui. Each larger narrative crumbles into broken episodes, visual jokes of simply fantastic ideas.

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Ralf Ziervogel - Morlok