- Title: My Private Greens / Leaving
- Year: 2007-2014
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Location: White Cube, London
- Author: Franz Ackerman
The brightly painted picture at once attracts our attention with a chaotic gorge of the products of human activity in it. Franz Ackerman uses bright colours to make you dizzy, underlining the effect of total mess. The motif is not new for him, as he is known to make “exuberant paintings and installations centred on themes of travel, tourism, globalisation and urbanism”. Staying at the picture, the first thing your do is trying to distinguish all the objects, painted there. The plain makes the biggest part of the picture, but then the eyes tire and cannot fix the tiny details of it. Having surrendered, you just stay enjoing the pleasant colours an guessing what kind of message each of the distinguished details conveys. Franz Ackerman has been paintig this picture fo 7 years, constantly adding something new, paying attention to every special detail and it is now rather interesting to do the puzzle of his great artwork.
Bibliography
“Franz Ackermann,” White Cube, 2014. Web.