WEST END BAG END - THITZ
04. November 2024
Artist’s Reception
We cordially invite you and your friends to the reception with Thitz on Thursday, 28 November at 6 pm in our new Frankfurt gallery.
What does depict civilizations better than their shopping bags? Thitz collages bags from all over the world on canvas and repaints them with carefree and dense scenes. Ever new layers of paint and overdrawings in acrylic and ink create an associative network. The colors begin to glow, future, past and present merge, thousands of figures populate facades, seas of houses, water surfaces and even the sky.
Shopping bags are both a reflection of our culture and a cultural artifact. Thitz recycles them in his conceptual pop art works. Shopping bags may soon no longer exist. That is the way of things. This gives Thitz's paintings a new dimension: in addition to their autonomous value as coveted art objects, they also acquire the aura of irretrievable contemporary testimonies.