Fire Beats is Markus Draper’s
own selection of key works since 2003: paintings, collages, installations,
and video pieces that revolve around the subjects of dwellings and threatened
idylls. “I understand houses as a stand-in for the human image,” explains
Draper. The wall becomes a sensitive skin, and “the skin is the
projection screen on which internal conditions become visible from the
outside.” Ulrich Bischoff describes this multi-layered interplay
thus: “Draper’s pictorial inventions are always overlays
behind which ‘reality’ appears like a fireworks display,
only to remain concealed.” This book is published on the occasion
of awarding the 2006 Energy Art Prize to Markus Draper. |