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Oskar Staudinger – Gates to a distant, unreachable world
The graduate artist Oskar Staudinger creates unusual graphics, all within the limits of 25.5 × 38 cm, inspired by the Japanese Oban format. The images go immediately from the head to the hand, free from pseudo-intellectual word-fishing, which he also does not master, because what he has to say, he conveys by drawing the images and not by providing an instruction manual and thereby dictating to the viewer what to see. […]
IKEA building instruction art is repugnant to him. […] Like automatic writing, strange worlds emerge stroke by stroke. The artist’s ambidexterity is also unusual, which he emphasizes often, and which he applies whenever he is under time pressure. They are windows into a bizarre world full of naked or unusual beings.
Edward Gorey, The Pre-Raphaelites, and John Currin are among his role models. Early on, he sharpened his pencil to pass the time behind the rehearsal stages of large three-part houses when his father took him to work again. […] His role as an East German dissident was eliminated because he was only born in 1989. Coming from the media industry, Staudinger, already during his vocational training, applied his illustrative skills artistically. […]
Later, Staudinger studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. To finance his tuition fees, he worked as a commissioned nudist for other students, which in turn shaped his art […] The death of his father at the beginning of his studies deeply affected him and rounded off his art because themes such as death and transience are at the core of his work; he plays this theme keyboard without falling into self-pity.
© Excerpts from: A Future Obituary for Oskar Staudinger (edited and shortened by Oskar Staudinger) by Astrid Kora Negus, Dresden, November 2017