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A representative work of art for the European Union

Many publications, commentaries and public and private communications give the impression that the EU is sluggish, detached and powerless. This view has also crept into the thinking and acting of many. However, the EU is exactly the opposite: She is highly sensitive, agile and alert. And it has weight in the truest sense of the word, it is important! It has foundation, substance, tension and dynamism. She is curious and attractive. It is movable and movable.

The installation ‘Europa movable’ conveys this artistically with the use of the visual means ‘cradle’.

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The wedding bike

Honeymoon trips in the Oldenburg area

By bike, of course

Website: https://www.hochzeitsfahrrad-oldenburg.de

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the internal logic of growth and progress as a dictum of capitalism

9 columns. 9 lines
arranged in the well-known style of a sudoku

However, it is not filled in with profane numbers for playing, bobbling and/or pastime.

filled with terms on the subject of critique of capitalism
Concepts whose meanings refer logically to each other.

"Growth!"
"Progress!"
consuming
power
globalisation
energy
garbage
destruction
extinction

Banner, polyester fabric, 200 cm x 200 cm, 2020

First published as part of the exhibition "Kunst statt Kommerz 2020" by The Hidden Art Project. www.thehiddenartproject.de

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Idea: 2006

Start of construction: 2017

Completion: 2020

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The aim of the project is to bring the mostly and strongly repressed and hidden topic of "dying, death and finiteness" back into our everyday social life. And road traffic is a central place for interaction and communication.

The funeral wheel is specially designed and built for its intended purpose according to the legal regulations of the STVZO and the Lower Saxony Funeral Ordinance and therefore much more than a work of art.

It embodies a clear contrast to the life and behavior practice of the "more-faster-more-greater-louder-higher..." of today's everyday life, namely:

Insight into the self-evidentness of finiteness
pause
Refreshments
deceleration
The counter-draft to the materialistic worldview of the Western world
The confrontation with the moment, the NOW as an interface between the past and the future
The ancient practice of giving the last convoy to the deceased, bringing/carrying a loved one to the grave together.

Since, in addition to my work as a freelance artist, art technician, set designer and journeyman in the two-wheel mechanic trade, I also have all the knowledge in welding, construction and the like, it was all too logical to use the "bicycle" as a visual means to bring the topic of ‘dying and transience’ into our everyday social life.

I deliberately designed the wheel with the coffin on the loading area in front of the steering. It thus pays tribute to the respect and respect for the deceased fellow human being and his life to a much greater extent than to hide the coffin of a corpse in the trunk of an invisible motor vehicle.

Therefore, I have also reduced all technical-constructive, creative and pictorial means to a minimum. At the center of the action should - and must - be the coffin. The vehicle is built extremely filigree and "light", "light". And also not black but dark blue.

Would you like to use the funeral bike with me or another person as a driver? Then you can simply contact me via the contact form on the homepage.

Price on request.

Contact us at:

Michael Olsen
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or 0177-4334616

Photos: Jörg Hemmen, Oldenburg, copyright!

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Baptismal font
Sandstone, stainless steel
The new baptismal font for the parish of Oldenburg Osternburg, Gemeindehaus Bümmerstede, Erikaweg 6, 26133 Oldenburg

Obernkirchen sandstone
stainless

Base made with prisoners of the JVA-Oldenburg
The sandstone comes from a bridge over the Haaren in Oldenburg, built before 1900 and demolished in 1984.

Here is the film shot by Grit Monien for the German regional television DRF: