TATI

Jacques Tati is one of my great heroes. I have seen all of his films sev­er­al times. My deep admi­ra­tion for his work has grown again and again over the course of my life. How one can create so many won­der­ful things with so few means. An observ­er of the high­est order. A vision­ary. When you watch his films, you’re seeing con­tem­po­rary his­to­ry – just as in Chil­dren of Par­adise or Bicy­cle Thieves. Tati made me infi­nite­ly curi­ous about people who can tell sto­ries. About the unex­pect­ed. He made me curi­ous about Felli­ni and François Truf­faut. That film once was an art form – that is his legacy.

To speak merely of pas­sion, love and obses­sion falls short here. I often think about how des­per­ate he must have been, how help­less, how pow­er­less, how pen­ni­less, how often he must have felt hope­less. And still he kept going. Absorb­ing all the dis­ap­point­ments. Against all adver­si­ty and resis­tance. Always risk­ing every­thing for some­thing that, for a long time, exist­ed only in his head, in his imag­i­na­tion. Today we only see his works of art, but we do not see his suf­fer­ing. And what he cre­at­ed is truly impres­sive. It fills me with great humility.

The art­work “Tati” is part of the art series devot­ed to “pos­i­tive memory cul­ture”. And in mine, Tati must not be miss­ing. You can choose this art­work on its own or put togeth­er a series. You can also start a series or a col­lec­tion. The aim is that people sur­round them­selves with pos­i­tive impuls­es through my art – or use these pos­i­tive impuls­es for people who are pre­cious and impor­tant to them.

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.