Dialogue With The Youth 2017 Rotten wisdom teeth, velvet and gold-leaf frame 35 x 52 cm

Inspired by Martin Kippenberger’s work. One night in Berlin after allegedly drunkenly parading as a Nazi at the punk club SO36 (which he helped run), Kippenberger was severely beaten and hospitalized. The next day he had a photographer take shots of his bandaged, swollen face, from which he then painted a self-portrait titled ‘Dialogue with the Youth of Today’ (1981).