I’ve added a new section to my website: #unwrapped!

Here I will dig out and present stuff from the archives once a week.

Why?

I am happy that I can say that I am a very privileged artist because I do have great collectors and people who love my work so I am not sitting on a huge backlog of older paintings and woodcuts etc., but there is also always some beautiful pieces lingering on, and I think it might be a good idea to circle back from time to time and bring them back into the circus.

If you are interested in any of these these works - please drop me a message and I’ll unwrap it for you!

#unwrapped 25.07.2024

This is a rare piece from my 2018 exhibition „Kind, gentle and fully dressed“. I don’t have many works left from that show, but very fond memories, as well from the production and the exhibition itself.

This one is

Born again in a different song (2018)

Acrylic paint and woodcut on wood, 107 x 77 x 5 cm

(framed with a shadow gap, beech, painted black)

It is available. If you are interested - drop me a message and I’ll unwrap it for you.

I’ve created the complete body of art for this show in my studio in the remote countryside of Northern Germany, 150 km away from Hamburg. We just bought that 200 year old farmhouse earlier that year, and only started to restore it. My studio was in a rough space then, but it was perfect for working - alone, in solitude, (almost) no Wifi, but with loud explosive music that inspired the intense painting and carving sessions for the show. I have copied the exhibition statement below, so you can re-read why all this was important.

The opening itself was held on a beautiful, cold November night in Hamburg at heliumcowboy, where Melvin had only that year begun to fully work at the gallery, and it was the first of my exhibitions that we set up together. Also, my parents came all the way from Cologne to visit - it was their last trip to Hamburg, my mom was in the early stages of her sickness and shortly after couldn’t travel anymore. My parents used to be at most of my exhibitions, and I miss that a lot. But that night we all celebrated like there is no tomorrow!

Anyway, enjoy this work, and this trip down memory lane!

From the exhibition info 2018:

For „Kind, gentle and fully dressed“ Alex Diamond (Jörg Heikhaus) retreated into the solitude of the rural north and produced a very personal new series of work. He looked at our society from the distance to the restlessness of the City, our social-media driven cohabitation and the oversaturation of our daily life. The artworks – a mix of woodcut and painting - were created intuitively and dynamic in a spontaneous process.

This series consists of flat wooden boards instead of the layered, stage-like constructions of Alex Diamond’s major work of the past years. The results are unique woodcuts that are abstract, graphic and figurative at the same time, interspersed with quotes and text fragments from music and film.

At first glance these new artworks seem to account for the assumed lightness of the impulsive work process in the studio. Their stories unfold when taking a closer look, when following the numberless cuts into wood – in some works amounting to thousands of carvings – and when putting the text fragments into context with current events. Doing so you can discover the intensity and complexity of the paintings and their subjects.

Find other artworks from this series under “woodcuts” on this website, and a lot more info and images here.

#unwrapped 10.07.2024

WE LET THE STARS GO, 2022
Acrylic paint, oil pastels, indian ink on canvas, in artist frame, 82 x 62 x 5 cm

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This is from a very small series I made back in 2022 which I labelled TECHNICOLORS, because for my usual color palette these seem like I just went from B/W TV to, well, Technicolor. This series consisted of a handful of pure paintings and I believe one mixed painting/woodcut. Some of these were shown at „Don’t wake Daddy 17“ at Galerie Feinkunst Krüger in Hamburg 2022.

All those paintings were losely based on the accoustic recordings of the Album „Steve McQueen“ by Prefab Sprout (or other songs by .

Find other artworks from this series under “paintings” on this website, and a bit more info here.

Some details and installation views from “Don’t wake Daddy 17” at Feinkunst Krüger, surrounded by artwork from Alexandra Lukaschewitz, Hazel Ang, Fred Stonehouse, Cait McCormack and Heiko Müller. Fotos (7 & 8) by Heiko Müller.