Hana Jaeger
ART Habens
the painting are antiheroes , underdogs , weaklings , vulnerable like in the German expressionism I use for inspiration . There ' s a social expression in my works stemming from an intimately non-defiant place .
All my works are untitled . Open , unraveled reading is very important for me . They say that an artist knows what he wants to create but doesn ' t know what he has eventually created . The moment you have completed your work and exposed it to the viewer it is expropriated from you . The subjects in my work are universal , and it ' s so interesting and surprising to hear from people how each one connects . Each one with whatever he ' s brought from the load he carries , from his life , from his world . There are those who see sadness in a certain work and others who sometimes see humor there . Work should be multi-layered . The title " Death of Superman " was taken from a story written in 1992 and broadcast on television . And it implies the absence of a superhero that can save us in these times . A hero we ' re sometimes looking for both on the personal and on the national levels . The yearning for something like that . Among the figures portrayed in my paintings you definitely won ' t be able to find anyone that fits the bill . Superman is dead . Or maybe he ' ll break through one day ...
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