Forest upside down

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Cologne (Germany).

“Forest upside down” is the artist’s first painting in which he consciously flipped the image upside down. According to the author, he wanted to show the viewer that not the object in the picture but the work itself is of much greater importance. There is nothing special in the winter landscape apart from its unusual location. It echoes the work of famous 19th-century artist Louis Ferdinand von Paradise, who painted landscapes of dense German forests.