Zeerpaint - "Avalanche"

"Avalanche"
100 × 70 cm
Mixed media on canvas

Acrylic, Oil, charcoal, soft pastel and spray paint.

Avalanche is loosely based on the compositional structure of Peter Paul Rubens’ monumental painting The Great Last Judgement (1614–1617). Rather than directly referencing its religious imagery, the work transforms Rubens’ dramatic vision into an abstract reflection on the fragility of contemporary existence.
The painting presents a turbulent and highly dynamic composition in which forms, colors, and movements appear to collide and dissolve into one another. Across this visual intensity lies a translucent white veil, evoking the overwhelming force of snow, ice, and atmospheric obscurity. The title Avalanche refers not only to the natural phenomenon itself, but also to the unstoppable momentum of events that exceed human control.
While Rubens’ The Great Last Judgement depicts humanity being judged by a divine power, Avalanche reimagines this idea through the lens of the natural world. Here, judgment no longer emerges from a religious authority but from the forces of nature itself. The work reflects a reality in which environmental catastrophes increasingly shape human life, confronting society with the consequences of its own actions and vulnerabilities.
The white veil that stretches across the composition simultaneously conceals and reveals what lies beneath. It softens the violence of the image while intensifying its sense of uncertainty, creating a tension between beauty and destruction, stillness and chaos. Through abstraction, Avalanche does not illustrate a specific disaster but evokes a broader condition of instability—one in which humanity is continuously exposed to forces far greater than itself.

The artwork will be shipped rolled and without stretcher bars/wooden frame.

Note: The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube without wooden frame.


Further Information:
I am living and working in Cologne, Germany. I share my painting process on Instagram and studied Painting at Alanus University. (Master of fine arts, degree in 2017).

Exhibitions:
Solo Show:
2024: Kunstverein Husum und Umgebung
2021: "inferno", Galerie Haus zum Stein.

Group Shows:

2023: Susanna, Wallraf-Richartzs Museum Köln
2022: "The new Artist II", Boomer Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2022: "The new Artist II", Boomer Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
2019: “Boxing Day”, Gallery 104 (New York, USA)
2018: “Willkommen zu Hause”, VHS (Bonn, Deutschland)
2017: “Deutschlandstipendiaten”, Alanus Hochschule (Alfter, Deutschland)
2016: “lose enden”, Kunstverein Wesseling (Wesseling, Deutschland).
2016: “Web 2.0. Do it for the process”, Alanus Hochschule (Alfter, Deutschland)
2015: “Erinnerungsorte”, (ehemaliges) Kinderheim Sülz , (Köln, Deutschland).
2015: “unter den Tellerrand”, Kunstverein Wesseling (Wesseling, Deutschland)
2014: “Dramat Wolnosci ”, Montelupich Gefängnis (Krakau, Polen).
2013: “Kunst im Brennpunkt”, Frauenmuseum (Bonn, Deutschland).
2012: “Kunst im Brennpunkt”, Alqud’s University (Westbank, Israel).
2011: “appassionato II”, Cima Norma (Dangio, Torre; Schweiz).