Ebenbild Paintings
MARCUS KLEINFELD
‘Ebenbild’ is a word of biblical origin, which in English is rendered ‘image’. It denotates the Genesis, the creation of man: ‘God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him’. The German term, however, retains the connotation of copy or clone. In this case, two things are alike: one essence has not only multiplied, but has begun to exist as a double image.
Marcus Kleinfeld considers the act of artistic creation in the same terms. The work of art is not only an extension, but an Ebenbild of the essences in the artist’s mind. The invisible and private is made visible and public: what goes on in the mind becomes body and physically real.
These paintings concentrate on propaganda and politics, and the ways in which they inform our existence. The images and iconography of the worlds of sport and medicine are chosen to represent these two themes.
