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Figure and Portrait
The man and his love
Helena B.Klaus
Nationality: Germany
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Year: 2025
Technique: Charcoal, Pastellkreide, Kaffee, Pigmente, collagierte Teile,
170
120
cm
The Man and His Love is a large-scale work centered on intimacy, emotion, and the quiet power of human closeness. The composition shows a man embracing a woman — either holding her from behind or enveloping her in a protective gesture. From his back emerge wings, not painted but constructed: collage elements sewn directly onto the canvas, giving the figure a fragile yet physical presence. The piece is created with charcoal, coffee, and chalk on unprimed canvas. These raw materials intentionally leave the surface open, absorbent, and vulnerable, allowing stains, traces, and imperfections to remain visible. The work therefore exists somewhere between drawing and object, between image and memory. The faces of the figures are deliberately indistinct. They are not meant to represent specific individuals, but rather a universal emotional state. By removing identity, the viewer is invited to step into the moment — to recognize a touch, a memory, a feeling, rather than a person.
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helena.b.klaus@gmail.com
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