Human legacy

In many grocery stores they will give you some of those thin, sometimes colorful plastic bags to pack your goods. Those bags are kind of a symbol for our huge waste production and the pollution by plastic.
I started to paint beautiful birds exactly on those particular bags: Species that live in Panama are painted on bags I received in Panama and Canadian species on the Canadian bags.
On the colorful, thin, and transparent support media the oil paint – that sometimes tends to appear heavy – seems light. Mediating the impression of those popular aerial inhabitants, and the ephemeral impression also hints at the imminent extinction of many of those birds.

27 Quetzal Painting Stefan Ad M

Quetzal (Nr. 27), 2019, 29×53 cm, oil on plastic bag

16 Plastic Bird Yellow Tityra Painting Sad M

Masked tytra (Nr.16), 2019, 26×53 cm, oil on plastic bag

11 Plastic Bird Braun Canada Warbler Painting Sad M

Canada warbler (Nr.11), 2019, 30×53 cm, oil on plastic bag

1 Plastic Bag Rosa Trogon Painting Sad M

Trogon (Nr.1), 2018, 25×44 cm, oil on plastic bag

13 Plastic Bird Blau Bay Headed Tanager Painting Sad M

Tanager (Nr.13), 2019, 22×45 cm, oil on plastic bag

17 Plastic Bird Apotheke Yellow Eared Toucanet Painting Sad M

Toucanet (Nr.17), 2019, 45×54 cm, oil on plastic bag

8 Plastic Bird Transp Kolibri Painting Sad M

Hummingbbird (Nr. 8), 2019, 21×44 cm, oil on plastic bag

10 Plastic Bird Blau Kolibri Painting Sad M

Hummingbbird (Nr. 10), 2019, 20×38 cm, oil on plastic bag

20 Canada Jay Painting Stefan Ad M

Canada jay (Nr. 20), 2019, 40×66 cm, oil on plastic bag

7 Plastic Bird Gelb Antbird Painting Sad M

Antbird (Nr. 7), 2019, 35×37 cm, oil on plastic bag

2 Plastic Bird Super99 Tanager Painting Sad M

Tanager (Nr. 2), 2019, 27×46 cm, oil on plastic bag

23 Plastic Bird Vireo Painting Stefan Ad M Dscf1404

Vireo (Nr. 23), 2019, 21×18 cm, oil on plastic bag

Birds Instalation View Stefan Ad M Paintings

Human legacy, Instalation view, Galerie POPOP, 2019

13 Close Up Painiting Stefan Ad M

Detail view, Bay-headed tanager (Nr. 13), 2019, oil on plastic bag

29 Summer Tanager Painting Stefan Ad M Cutout

Detail view, Summer tanager (Nr. 29), 2019, oil on plastic bag