Josef Zekoff: Paradise

The facelessness of the protagonists in Josef Zekoff's paintings is one of their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths - he does also paint ornaments and maps - to drawn stick figures, the in-between space occupied by these paintings encourages self-reflection, which does, however, require courage on the part of the viewer. Or as Florian Waldvogel writes in his introductory text: Do the protagonists of his paintings seek an encounter with something that goes beyond the world of objects and fixed quantities? Is it, as Martin Heidegger writes in > What is Metaphysics? nothing dread nothing