(한국어) Opening: 31.03.2023, 6-8 pm
My name is Elvis and my stage name is Sandzo. I am a musician and songwriter. I was born in 1996 and grew up in Wedding, Berlin.
As a teenager, I was the guy to spend my weekends going out to bars with the boys. We would wander the streets and I would always stop in front of pop-up stores or gallery windows, just to see how and in which ways artists were expressing themselves and using their inspiration to create a work.
I have been a fan of Armin Boehm for a long time and was lucky enough to meet him face to face this year. What has always interested me about his works is thinking about how he might have created them and what might have been going through his mind at the time. After we met, I noticed that all of Armin’s works that I saw always had the same hallmarks, even though they were often in different styles.
Both his famous merged faces and his larger paintings have a unique dynamic that anyone can reinterpret for themselves. To me, the darker and gloomier styles suggest that Armin has listened to his inner voice instead of trying to please people.
The variety of colours and the great level of detail in the large images always wow me. This powerful imagery can only really be understood once you recognize its true meaning, and this tends to come from a completely different context than first thought. I think this room for interpretation is necessary if something is to be described as timeless. When you encounter one of his paintings for the first time, it forces you to sink into a world of thought.
Impulsive thoughts run through your mind when you take a closer look at some of the motifs and symbols in his pieces – they include resources and consumer-based corporations, which represent the power, money, influence and monopolies of modern society, but also, among other things, an overstimulated culture that, in these changing times, bares all and seems to repress the problems of our contemporary world in a kind of frenzy.
Cult figures and animals such as the Pink Panther, the teddy bear, the cat, the rabbit or even the owl, among colourful flowers in vases, balls and fruit, give his worlds a charged momentum.
Except for the bright shining moon in one of his first paintings for the show, which might symbolize a defining moment in his emotional world, in this latest exhibition, Armin continues to make use of artificial light sources and the night.
From the soft, refined and delicate paintwork to the visibly hard and imperfect details in the works, whose colour gradients seem deliberately chaotic, a great deal is represented in the latest exhibition The Noise Inside.
“It is finished because it is not finished the voice loud yet sometimes intangible, just like the stars, it’s not our eyes but our hearts that are blind, we are happy when voices become colours, if we are honest, because when we are not on the beat or on the canvas is when we are most distant from ourselves.”