The Trojan Poodle or In Search Of The Lost Image

The works of the realMoi. are best described as multimedia collages. They represent a major part of his work.

“The collage is an important way of approaching the world, not just art. Whether reading a text or being engaged in a personal conversation, whether we watch a movie or stroll through a colourful autumn forest, images will always appear and they will eventually form a complex inner collage. Those images are always the result of coincidences, love and anger – an imagination of how the world could be: while we create that image – we get the picture.”

The realMoi. gathers photographs, Polaroids, video stills and fragments of text, all taken from the collection of his library of popular and art-historical sources. By combining them (mostly as laser prints) he constantly creates seemingly realistic scenarios –new pictorial “realities”.

By using irony and surreal combinations of places and figures he makes uncanny but coherent connections between ideas and events. Those sequences form a language of images engaged in a dialogue with our day to day perception through media. At the same time, the realMoi. questions the image itself and it‘s implications in today’s understanding of the world. The picture is in question.

The titles of his pictures are essential to his work. Like a Koan, they provoke reflections on an intellectual basis. At the same time, they provide a framework for his pictures.

The works of the realMoi. reveal an obviously ironic perspective on society and culture. An aesthetic reflection of how our perspective of reality is functioning and being guided is thus facilitated.
The realMoi. challenges our perceptions of what seems at first recognizable, leaving us with provocative and open-ended questions, not answers.

As the realMoi. describes himself, he was born in the 50th year of the past century. Trained in Hamburg to become an architect, he worked in this profession briefly. He was co-founder of the Hamburg Film Co-operative which produced and distributed films. His first exhibition, “Das Bild macht die Musik”, concerned with the implications of visual arts in the music industry, took place in the “Markthalle” in Hamburg.

Exhibitions in Los Angeles (Zero-Zero Gallery) and the film productions “L.A. Getaway” and “Mein Matterhorn” followed. “Mein Matterhorn” received a Deutsche Cinemathek award.

Numerous exhibitions have been taking place in Europe since 1989. In the same year he started working together with John Ellis, a musician and composer from London. John Ellis has written soundtracks to many of his exhibitions which are available on CD. During the recent two years his work has been shown in a number of spaces in London, a town that has always been very important in the life and work of the realMoi.

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