DAVID BENEDIKT WIRTH

Sekhmet, oil on canvas, 190 x 70 cm, 2021

Sekhmet - David Benedikt Wirth - oil on canvas - 190 x 70 cm - 2021

Among the ancient Egyptians, Sekhmet, who is depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness, was worshipped as a goddess of war, but also as a goddess of protection against disease and of healing. In the myth The Destruction of Mankind it is told how she kills more and more people in a […]

Phantom Lords, oil on canvas, 54 x 46 cm, 2022

Phantom Lords - David Benedikt Wirth - oil on canvas - 54 x 46 cm - 2022, REALMS, JVDW gallery

The series Pack deals with gang clothing and its symbols. The subjects are based on color and black-and-white photographs that were published in the 1970s, among others in New York Times articles. The series examines in its life-size motifs in particular their anthropological and social level, the totemic elements of the symbols, as well as the codes […]