Oil Fragment Study - Fallen Angel

21 x 30 cm

Oil on paper

Framed with matting in an aluminum floater frame

The Fragment Studies emerged as a playful, exploratory extension of the "Broken Portraits" image series.

The Broken Portrait series originated following a trip to Italy in August 2023. The decisive inspiration was an encounter with a young frame maker who was exhibiting fragmented and reassembled picture frames at the artist and craft market in Ovada. From the initial impulse to fill these frames with life, a series of works emerged that extends far beyond that. Fragments, cracks, and breaks have since repeatedly accompanied my creative work. They serve not only as symbols of destruction, vulnerability, and transience, but also of reconstruction, strength, and resilience. However, the Fragment Studies are approximations of well-known works: Cabanel's Fallen Angel, Sargent's Lady Agnew, but also the Gioconda del Prado. They symbolically represent the difficult attempt, as a self-taught artist, to find an entry point into art history: scattered and incomplete.