Photo above:
Performance by Sebastian Bieniek, part of the Liturgy-Specific-Art series by the "Institut for Church Building and Contemporary Art" (Instituts für Kirchenbau und kirchliche Gegenwartskunst) of the Philipps University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg), 2016.
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Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) is an artist who started his career at the
Kunsthaus Tacheles 1998.
He workes with painting,
conceptual art and
photography. Here you see his "Conceptual Art".
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For many years between 2012 and 2019 he created again and again one artsy viral hit after the other so that his art got much more attention than those of many formally "established" artists of the so called "official art scene" which only exists on paper and the walls that nobody has ever seen.
Even the superstar Madonna asked him in 2018 for a collaboration but he refused.
But then suddenly in august 2019 something happened and changed!
In august 2019 all Sebastian Bieniek facebook social-media profiles and pages were attacked and without an explanation delated.
Short time later also all wikipedia articles (in for the "western world" relevant languages like english, german, italian, etc.) were also attacked and delated!
Here you can see the "Wikipedia article about Sebastian Bieniek" as it was last time saved before the attack on 22nd of apr. 2019.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Bieniek on internet archive (overview over the years)
- Last (22nd of apr. 2019) saved Sebastian Bieniek Wikipedia article before the attack
Who and why attacked Sebastian?
Screenshoot of the attack on Sebastian Bieniek's wikipedia article in august 2019
„Mediendemokratie - Rendezvous der Wahrheit“, Gemälde von Sebastian Bieniek
"Media Democracy - Rendezvous of Truth", painting by Sebastian Bieniek
With his work “Media Democracy – Rendezvous of Truth”, Sebastian Bieniek creates a complex and provocative panorama that inevitably draws the viewer into the maelstrom of our contemporary media landscape.
The painting, which in its conceptual density is reminiscent of a kaleidoscopic collage, calls for a renewed reflection on how truth and power merge in the digital age, influencing, supporting, and nourishing each other.
In typical Bieniek fashion, the image is not a static representation, but a multifaceted exploration of the mechanisms of information dissemination. The central composition depicts a kind of rendezvous—a meeting—between different media forms and actors: social networks, news agencies, political icons, and faceless avatars. These figures appear to exist in a symbiotic, yet also parasitic, relationship to one another, and above all, in an inseparable dependency, like a body to its organs.
At the center of the painting is an oversized and dominant eye, reminiscent in its pictorial use of the Eye of Horus. This is embedded in a kind of screen supported by the lower body of an old man.
Branches sprout from this screen, and twigs grow from the branches, as if it were a tree. The unnaturally rounded shape of the branches makes them resemble a snake, around which people are depicted. People who look away, people who disappear, are distracted, or who are merely placeholders in a frame. The scene evokes the story of Paradise, the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," and the serpent winding its branches. A naked woman lying on the ground bleeds, her blood nourishing a branch of the tree, while another takes the form of a phallus and approaches her from behind. Here, too, one might recognize motifs from one of the countless stories in which Jupiter, sometimes as a snake, sometimes as a bull (of Europa), approaches and impregnates her. In this painting, however, the impregnator is not a god, but the media machine, which spins on and on, always only around itself.
The color palette is deliberately reduced to strong and vibrant primary colors such as red, blue, yellow, green, and magenta, reflecting the exaggerated nature of the medium but also creating a certain artificiality and thus distance from the depicted figures. They are not people. They are puppets.
The use of separate colors in 20th-century printing techniques reinforces the impression of a filter that lies on the actual level of reality, thus preventing a view of it.
What makes this work particularly distinctive is the subtle irony with which Bieniek questions the illusion of transparency and authenticity in media-driven democracy. The "Rendezvous" appears as a meeting of masks—an allusion to the facade often maintained in the digital world. The painting invites the viewer to penetrate the surface and question the mechanisms that shape our perception.
Sebastian Bieniek succeeds here in a frightening way in bringing together the complexity of our information society in a single, powerful composition. “Media Democracy – Rendezvous of Truth” is not only an artistic call to vigilance, but also a mirror of our times, which, in its visual density, reveals an almost frightening truth: In media democracy, truth is no longer solid ground, but a fleeting place to be explored, and one that presupposes the explorer's own responsibility.
(14th of jan. 2016)
SOME TIMES series - New on the website!
Wie der Titel fast schon verrät -insofern als das "some times" und "es war einmal" nicht so weit voneinander entfernt sind- ist diese Reihe der Versuch einer Narration, mit den möglichst geringsten Mitteln. Irgendwann verselbständigt sich alles, und beginnt seine eigene Geschichte zu schreiben. So ist es auch mit dieser Reihe, aus der wiederum andere Reihen entstehen werden bzw. die irgendwann mal die Inspiration für neue Bilder sein wird.
(Sebastian Bieniek, 2010)
Sebastian Bieniek is working currently on a new series of textart-paintings called "Real-Fake" it's a hommage on his 2011 written book with the title "REALFAKE".
DZDSD der deutschsprachige Podcast von Sebastian Bieniek Folge #2 jetzt erschienen! Bitte anhören und abonieren auf:
Link zur Webseite der Folge #2 mit Infos und Inhaltesangabe und Links zu weiteren Plattformen...
(30. August 2024)
DZDSD der deutschsprachige Podcast von Sebastian Bieniek zieht auf die @sbieniek YouTube webseite um!
LINK ZUM PODCAST HIER!
(30. August 2024)
