Title: Oktoberfest Technique: Oil Support: Canvas Dimensions: 80 × 140 cm Year of completion: 2024 Edition: Unique piece Signature: Signed on the back
This painting does not simply depict a bottle with a branch; there is an emotional weight contained within it, a nearly silent contemplation of the everyday. The title Oktoberfestcreates a deliberate contrast between the festivity it references — full of noise, crowds, and beer — and the intimate, melancholic image presented to us. It’s as if, amidst all that bustle, the artist found this small fragment of calm and paused to observe it.
The work speaks of the ephemeral: the withered leaves, the solitary branch, the glass that holds but does not retain. Everything in it suggests a careful look at something that, in another context, might go unnoticed. It is still life, yes, but there is no death in its tone; rather, there is a kind of respect for time, for simplicity, for what remains after the euphoria. Here, the banal becomes meaningful.
