Manfred K. Schwitteck(*1948), Still life with fish bones and champagne corks
, 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 "26.8.[19]92", framed in passepartout under glass.
- very well preserved and attractively framed
- Behind still life -
Four remnants of consumed fish are arranged into a kind of fish shape. In the middle of this 'fish body' is an onion set into it and above it lies a champagne cork.
By the arrangement and the kind of the picture objects a reference to the still life is opened, only that it concerns as it were the still life after the still life: The fish have already been consumed, the bottle has been emptied and is no longer there at all. And yet this nature morte
is not entirely dead, the onion is sprouting and the fish eyes are peering out of the picture. This gives the artwork a mysterious surreal character, which at the same time has something humorous.
