Oil on canvas
Verso signiert, datiert, betitelt und mit der Werknummer bezeichnet "A164". 152,5 x 162 cm (60 x 63,7 in)

PROVENANCE: Galerie Thomas, München (auf dem Keilrahmen mit dem Etikett).

Rainer Fetting studied at the Berlin School of Visual Art from 1972 to 78. Together with Helmut Middendorf, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer he founded the ‘Galerie am Moritzplatz‘ while he was still a master student. He is regarded as one of the main protagonists of the “Jungen Wilden“ (Young Wild Ones). In 1978 Fetting moves to New York where he makes urban subculture his preferred subject, he depict homeless people and a lot of dark male nudes: Fetting’s isolated nudes from those years seem to be ennobled to striking symbols of loneliness and beauty. In “Mann und Eule“ (Man And Owl) Fetting almost ornamentally depicted the male nude in an enthralling artistic wrench, combined with the owl, a nocturnal symbol, which evokes sexual associations in the observer, as it is placed on the naked body. It is also for the pose the muscular nude model can only hold for a short time that Fetting manages to depict a melancholic relation between beauty and fugacity.[JS].