SCULPTURE

OAK, From the series "Are You Ready For Xtinction": »What The Shit Is Going On? [6.8.1945 // 3.9.2017], Mixed Media
On 6 August 1945, the US forces dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima to end the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of the bomb.
Since 1945, over 2000 nuclear tests have been carried out by eight nations worldwide. An explosive force equivalent to around 34,000 Hiroshima bombs has been released in the process and into our atmosphere.
On 3 September 2017, a nuclear bomb was detonated (unannounced) for test purposes as part of North Korea‘s nuclear weapons programme. Its explosive power was ten times that of the Hiroshima bomb.
For every unannounced nuclear test by North Korea, the military defence services of the superpowers USA and Russia only have a maximum of six minutes to decide whether an attack situation exists and whether a nuclear counter-strike must therefore be carried out.
»The potentially most dangerous object on our planet. Officially referred to as the „Presidential Emergency Satchel,“ this atomic briefcase enables the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear  strike. It allows for the launch of individual strategic missiles or even a global nuclear attack. In American parlance, this powerful case is euphemistically called „The [Nuclear] Football.“ 
Since the 1960s, this bulging leather briefcase has always remained close  to the president—never more than an arm‘s length away—under the watchful eye of a specially assigned military aide. A briefcase as a symbol of power and global deterrence, balancing politics and responsibility—“The Football“ is by no means just a piece of luggage but rather the control unit for a potential worldwide nuclear Armageddon, ultimately dependent on the decision of a single individual. By the way, other potentates also have such a briefcase.«

OAK, »Extinction to go / The Football«, 2024 ,

A.I. aided sculpture, Laser-Stereolithography, Photopolymer handpainted,

499,77mm x 439,31mm x 292,12mm (Ph. Igor Panitz)

OAK, »THE ARK (STRANDED)«, Aasee, 

2025-2027, project for Skulpturen Projekte Münster 2027,  

OAK, »TEA TIME« (Blue Swords on white gold), Photopolymer, 2025, 80 x 70 x 45 cm


OAK, »somewHERE«, ON-Schaltung, Neon-Installation, 2015/2017

OAK, »nowHERE«, dreifach alternierende Schaltung, Neon-Installation, 2015/2023

OAK, »elsewHERE«, dreifach alternierende Schaltung, Neon-Installation, 2015/2023

OAK, »anywHERE«, interaktive alternierende Schaltung, Neon-Installation, 2015/2023

OAK, »Artist & Model«, Still life, 2019

»My Last Cigarette«, 3D Print, Objektkasten 20x20cm, 2020

OAK, »Become Your Own Idol«, 3D Print, Installation 2022

OAK, »Memento Mori«, 3D Print, Objektkasten 20 x 20cm, 2019

OAK, »Brain Enlarger«, (Atelieransicht), Ureol/MdF, 1996, 36x47x36 cm, Skulptur für Debutanten-Ausstellung "Einatmen – Ausatmen", Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

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