Card: Taurus in the Storm
Datum
Sketchpad 1994
In retrospect, decades later, the performance “Europe” probably expressed my inner enthusiasm for the union of European countries into the EU. Open borders and a common currency were initially the visible expressions of what I considered to be a long overdue geopolitical move.
I wasn’t aware of the economic problems facing the different economic zones. In my early years, when I worked as a grape picker in France, for example, I once received two French francs for one German mark. When I returned to Germany in late autumn, my French francs were exchanged back at a rate of 3:1, which was really annoying. Actually, it should have been clear to every economist that a common currency should be pretty much the last step in a merger, but unfortunately it was the first.
Stier im Sturm (Taurus in the Storm) is an imprint of a painting executed on an overhead projector. It is the last image of the performance, on which I then placed the block to darken the performance. The liquid projector paints were absorbed by the paper, thus forming the last image of the performance. In later years, I allowed the paint to dry on the foil and then laminated it.
