Manfred K. Schwitteck(*1948), Still life with fish bones
, pencil and pencil sharpener, 1992. watercolor over pencil on handmade paper, 31.5 x 45 cm (visible size), 47 x 61 cm (frame), signed in the center "m. k. schwitteck" and dated "25.8.[19]92", framed in passepartout under glass.
- very well preserved and attractively framed
- The irony of art -
Four remnants of consumed fish are arranged into a kind of fish shape. In the middle of this 'fish body' is a clip, a pencil sharpener and a pencil situated, above it lies a spring onion.
Manfred Schwittek creates here a still life, which has a self-reflexive dimension through the pencil and the pencil sharpener, since the picture was also drawn with the pencil. Yet the pencil is still sharpened and ready for new such creations, just as the onion could also still be prepared. The fish heads peeking out of the picture, on the other hand, are remnants, which, however, from the perspective of being artistically created, do not represent waste or leftovers, but are also something created. The bell is a humorous, as it were giggling accessory that draws attention to the contradiction between waste and art and at the same time seems to be amused by it.
