Humanimal

“Humanimal” represents the essential mix of Jörn Kaspuhls favorite visual themes. From the detailed human portraits it is leading over to the mystical and ornamental world of nature and its forms, patterns, colours and shapes. Starting earlier with a continuously growing set of musician-portraits simple nature elements like feathers or birdwings have poured more and more into the motivs. The next step was to develop the hybrids now shown in this exhibition. The human animals or the animalistic humans - depending from what point of view you´d like to see them - are the first step into the world of “Humanimal”. Inspired by many different influences like classic fairy tales as well as dark horror flics or by mythological figures and simple childhood masquerades the concept of this series is to create a state of discomfort and surprise for the viewer. Casual photographs of people in trivial situations served as templates for the pictures. “Humanimal” has been designed as an continious project for the future. Besides the “Humanimal” series other artwork regarding to the overall animal-topic is presented in this ehixibtion. From extensive overflowing patterns over natural and floristic book covers up to snarling posters everything covering the natural element of Jörn Kaspuhls portfolio is shown at Vallery.