PORTFOLIO

HERWIG MARIA STARK

2000 - 2014

HERWIG MARIA STARK PORTFOLIO

2014 - 2015 MULTIPLE MOMENTS

2014 ZEITENWANDEL

2013 - 2015 AUFPREZELT IS

2012 - 2014 LOOPINGS STATE OF MIND

2012 RESTRAINT

2011 - 2013 FOR EVER YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL

2010 - 2011 BLOODY CROSS

2009 - 2012 MOMENTS RELOADED

2009 MOMENTS

2008 - 2009 OMEGA - ALPHA

2006 - 2007 BALD HEADS

2005 - 2008 METROPOLIS

2003 - 2007 PARIS

2003 - 2004 INTROSPECTION

2003 SENZA FRONTIERE

2003 REALITY

2002 - 2003 STREET OF LIFE

2001 - 2008 WOMEN & MEN

2000 - 2007 FACES

2000 - 2002 ENCOUNTER











ZEITENWANDEL





„Aufpretzelt is“

“He who the sway of love forswears, he who delight of love forbears, alone the magic can master that forces the gold to a ring.”

(Libretto Rheingold)

The title of this series is at the same moment as seductive and misleading as the female

of male characters that are brought to life by Herwig Maria Stark using charcoal and

acrylics on rough canvas.

Their sensuality, sexual presence and powerful appearance, hide the fact of political,

economic and socio-political tragedies of times.

(Elisabeth Rass)








LOOPING STATE OF MIND

In LOOPING STATE OF MIND a society is portrayed that has strayed from the real world. In which the city as a living space, no longer matters.

His actors live and act in new virtual spaces. They are bohemians of a new generation. They live their unbridled passions, playing with the symbols of wealth, luxury and power and show no interest in existing structures.

They are children of the "I-will-have-and-I-am" society.

(Elisabeth Rass, 2012)










RESTRAINT














MOMENTS RELOADED
























BALD HEADS




M E T RO PO L IS Already the half of humans is living in cities and it’s expected that this percentage will increase.

• In METROPOLIS lives a population - in itself high - grade differentiated. • In METROPOLIS more things are possible than anywhere else due to the high concentration

of people and funds. • METROPOLIS are a staging area of highest national and international, political, economical

and cultural centrality. • METROPOLIS are places of an extreme increased ethnical, social and cultural variety

but also a preferred arena of crises. • METROPOLIS create, based on their dimension and high concentration, more possibilities

of action and ways of live both for individuals and groups. His reflection on these questions provoked Herwig Maria Stark to this serial of paintings. He shows the variety and the cultural and social background of urbanites in their faces, how willingly the city dweller subordinates himself to technology, getting addicted to it. He guides us in a METROPOLIS of necessities, networks and control. He points out the loneliness of every individual, the egotism and the wrong feeling of “togetherness”. He shows us the psychic damage (injury), but also hope and confidence, power and volition. “METROPOLIS will never be finished. It will keep on growing and mutate to a MEGA CITY. I wonder, which deformations residents and immigrants are willing to accept for the glory of METROPOLIS” (hms). (Text: Elisabeth Rass)















INTROSPECTION






SENZA FRONTIERE






REALITY





STREET OF LIFE






WOMEN & MEN








FACES







ENCOUNTER





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