How do we use our Power?
Since many years, I've been trying to artistically "decode" the human psycho-gene, trying to find out why we what we do and why we use the power we have on this planet the way we do.
In my work, I use three different techniques: there are my Paintographies (which is what I call painting on digital photo print), collages and classical oil paintings.
What moves me are the inner questions, the most complex encounters - those with ourselves: as human beings and as parts of our society.
Thre is the struggle to reflect and talk to ourselves about our humanity, about values, weighing and letting go, paths and encounters, opening and entangling, loving and rejecting.
When I see how our planet is literally gasping for air and how our treatment of nature is exploitative, I can only give what little I can do to support the struggling and the fight against suffocation.
In the process, I feel a constant search for the unexplored: the new, the delicate, the strange takes up more and more space and time in my works as a possibility. I work according to a principle of fusion of ideas and lines, I desire a constant openness to the new, to try the unknown, to go unexplored ways, to combine ways, not to discard anything but to try it out.
This for me, it feels symbolic for our society, which, according to me as an artist, must also no longer reject any path if our world is to be saved, if we are to stop filling the oceans with garbage. My life-philosophical principles are as much the basis of my work as the other way around.
Using my own work as a basis also in my paintings this is my way of reflecting on my own participation in this overuse: I am part of it.
And you.
I hope to pass on the questions that move me most to the "user" of my works, the viewer: "How are we treating our earth? Do we still have the joy and the possibility to enjoy what we would like to feel so much? How do we treat our world, our fellow humans and other creatures on this planet?
How do we use our power?"
Micky Focke in the Artworld
Seeing double: reality and vision
Feeling art: »Through the Eyes into the Soul«
Really perceiving art: The three artists Micky Focke, Christoph Michaelis and Chris Hinze, who work in different media, invite you to engage intensively with their work. The exhibition Through the Eyes into the Soul can be seen on May 3 and 4 in Micky Focke's studio in Schwielowsee/Ferch.
Micky Focke in the Artworld
Doppelt sehen: Wirklichkeit und Vision
Kunst empfinden: »Durch die Augen in die Seele«
Kunst wirklich wahrnehmen: Die drei Kunstschaffenden Micky Focke, Christoph Michaelis und Chris Hinze, die in unterschiedlichen Medien arbeiten, laden zu einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit ihrem Werk ein. Die Ausstellung Durch die Augen in die Seele ist am 03. und 04. Mai im Atelier von Micky Focke in Schwielowsee/Ferch zu sehen.