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The work is critical towards an art-scene that seemed to take itself too seriously. In the eighties and beginning of the nineties we found the influence of the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher and their never ending new disciples at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie uninspiring. Those photographs were only representations of the historic and genre paintings of the 19th century.
We both coming from the same area like August Sander and Bernd Becher. The calvinistic Siegerland and Westerwald. August Sander, and Bernd & Hilla Becher produced works at a time when society believed what they saw, and believed the visible world as truth.
In a humoristic manner, quite untypical for German artists and closer in spirit to the Dutch art, we had a unique and very independent point of view towards the contemporary art-scene. The closed circle of curators, galleries, art historians and art critics were narrow sited and to borrow from Marcel Duchamp, nothing else but flies whirring around the artists turd.
The ultimate goal for each artist would be to stop making art, become totally independent from the system and at the end being nothing else than a "respirateur", a breath-taker.