Blood Games (2021) Dijital Sanat Dr. Matthias Kerling tarafından

Peace games? Olympic peace? Or at least a truce? Already in ancient times, corresponding agreements, which were supposed to guarantee a safe course of the games as well as a safe arrival and departure, were broken again and again. And even in modern times, the Olympic Games are regularly overshadowed by wars, cancellations, boycotts and terrorist attacks. The Olympic Games are also regularly misused politically - at least since the Nazi propaganda show in Berlin, 1936.

The 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing. In a country ruled in an authoritarian (or increasingly totalitarian) manner by the Chinese Communist Party. The so-called “Peace Games” took place in a country that oppresses entire population groups such as the Uyghurs. And at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, 'impartial' athletes from the warmongering countries Russia and Belarus will take part under neutral flags. Major sporting events have lost their innocence. Commerce comes before morality. Let's call them Blood Games.

This artwork is available as fine art print (paper format 50 x 50 cm, print format 40 x 40 cm) on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g/m2 in a Limited Edition of 25 pieces (Hahnenmühle Certificate of Authenticity) and will be signed by the artist.

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