This look into Johannes Doerflinger’s inventory of his artistic sources from newspapers and magazines offers an insight into the methods he uses for his "tools of invention." By finding, quoting, and reinventing, the artist creates his artistic cosmos, where everything is connected. In building his works Doerflinger uses countless creative techniques. In addition to his paintings, drawings and sculptures, he photographs Polaroid pictures, paints over them, and then photographs them again. "Searching for dissimilar similarity the resulting objects surprise me," Doerflinger says. His artistic theme is metamorphosis, the steady change and reshaping of all things.
This look into Johannes Doerflinger’s inventory of his artistic sources from newspapers and magazines offers an insight into the methods he uses for his "tools of invention." By finding, quoting, and reinventing, the artist creates his artistic cosmos, where everything is connected. In building his works Doerflinger uses countless creative techniques. In addition to his paintings, drawings and sculptures, he photographs Polaroid pictures, paints over them, and then photographs them again. "Searching for dissimilar similarity the resulting objects surprise me," Doerflinger says. His artistic theme is metamorphosis, the steady change and reshaping of all things.