18th of September: My studio is empty now. I got rid of nine badass villains. I put them all in a box and nailed the lid shut. Now they are gone. But not forever! They want to get out again. This is not over, until I see them lined up on a wall in front of hundreds of good people. Nine large canvases are on their way to LA. Mystique, Loki, Sabretooth and the others… an intense project for the last months. Now they are all gone. My paintings are not my babies. I don’t feel emp

Less than one month to go and I am really happy about how many of you guys will be joining us in Paris. Can't wait to see all of you very soon. Afraa and I will be staying till sunday evening. I have been preparing this trip for a while now obviously and I read a lot about the Louvre, too. So, I remembered the Da Vinci Code, where it says that the glass pyramid in the Louvre is a symbol for Mary Magdalene and it has 666 glass panes because of the conspiracy. 666 is the number

It's always a challenge to show art. Taking photos isn't easy and a lot of things can go wrong, like light, focus, distance... But what else is new? I like to experiment when it comes to creating images and ways to show them. On canvas I find it easy, because we move our heads towards a painting, tilt, squint and so on. This is what I tried to capture in a series of pictures I took of some of my paintings. I call this series "The Magic of the Swarms - Perspectives" and I pret