CHAMPION shows a floating, abstract basketball in deep blue on white. A fine shadow and clear lines— a minimalist symbol of triumph, team spirit, and athletic excellence.
CHAMPION shows a floating, abstract basketball in deep blue on white. A fine shadow and clear lines— a minimalist symbol of triumph, team spirit, and athletic excellence.

CHAMPION

“CHAMPION” is a min­i­mal­ist homage to Germany’s his­toric vic­to­ry at the 2024 Bas­ket­ball World Cham­pi­onship. In deep blue, an abstract­ed bas­ket­ball floats against a white back­ground, its lines sug­gest­ing motion and energy. A subtle shadow enhances the light­ness of the moment, a symbol of tri­umph, team­work, and sport­ing excel­lence. A piece that cap­tures the cel­e­bra­tion in time­less, reduced form.“CHAMPION” is part of the art series “Blue in a Square”, which includes 300+ artworks.

Men­tal­i­ty Makes the Difference.

It is becom­ing increas­ing­ly clear that when every­thing becomes the same, when, at every level, every­one is just “cook­ing with water”, there is only one factor left that makes the dif­fer­ence between win­ning and losing. And that is col­lec­tive men­tal­i­ty. In Ger­many we are cur­rent­ly expe­ri­enc­ing a bas­ket­ball mir­a­cle: world cham­pi­on and Euro­pean cham­pi­on at the same time. You can observe this phe­nom­e­non in many areas. But sport makes it obvi­ous. Although I am sure that this fact is play­ing an ever more cen­tral role in all areas.

When the fac­tors that once dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed dis­ap­pear, ever less makes the deci­sive dif­fer­ence. I believe I have rec­og­nized that it is col­lec­tive men­tal­i­ty. If a group of people is con­vinced that only as a group can it achieve some­thing the indi­vid­ual could never accom­plish alone, then entire­ly dif­fer­ent results are pos­si­ble, entire­ly dif­fer­ent pro­ce­dures, process­es, work­flows, tech­niques, and strategies.

Soci­ety can learn a lot from sport here. If you leave out every­thing that could sep­a­rate the indi­vid­ual from a group, if you dis­cov­er every­thing that a com­mu­ni­ty can achieve much better and more togeth­er, then results become pos­si­ble that were pre­vi­ous­ly unthinkable.

A col­lec­tive, con­struc­tive, com­mu­nal, and cre­ative men­tal­i­ty can even become Euro­pean and world cham­pi­on in a sport in which all the super­stars are on the other side. Over­com­ing the neg­a­tive, ego­is­tic, and nar­cis­sis­tic ego for the sake of the com­mu­ni­ty, the real­iza­tion that togeth­er far more is pos­si­ble than when I try to get some­thing done on my own. That would be a solution.

The art­work “Cham­pi­on” can be ordered online only via the art store on my web­site. All you need to do is fill out the online form or send me an email. You will then prompt­ly receive a detailed quote with a pos­si­ble deliv­ery date. The format of the piece is freely selec­table, between 20 cm × 20 cm and 120 cm × 120 cm, as long as it is square. I look for­ward to your artis­tic, respect­ful mentality.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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