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Hagen Vogel - A Master of Fan Art
Hagen Vogel ( born 1988 in Berlin) demonstrates fan art in a whole new level. His influences range from the modern internet and gaming scene of the fan or better ‘follower’ culture and the imagery that accompanies it.
Vogel depicts his contemporary heroes using elaborate oil painting techniques which establish himself somewhere between high culture and pop art.
The seductive Lara Croft, one of the most recognisable video game characters of our time, is elevated onto a large scale canvas in all her strength and prominent femininity.
For this piece, Vogel preferred to pull references from the 2013 version of the ’Tomb Raider’ star; in which the script was written by a female and where Croft, for the first time, received a less raunchy, sexy appearance.
Vogel is a fan himself of stories and adventure - he brings virtual characters into the real world like in his paintings of Dr. Earnhardt (“Far Cry“) in front of a psychedelic mushroom harvest, Citra (“Far Cry“) as she takes the ceremonial dagger, and lastly a classical portrait of Ellie, the last human immune to the fungal virus that plagues the human race in the survival horror video game “The Last of Us“.
The artist creates sophisticated works that last for over 500 years before requiring any form of restoration by using self-made paints, fine Belgian canvas material, Swiss Gesso primers, and an alternating layering method that utilises egg tempera and oil resin paint. His characters become immortalised in carefully constructed environments using this technique.
Other pieces feature the global motifs of our time such as the infamous Captain Picard ‘meme’, which as an expression, has permanently entered the history of non-verbal communication methods among internet users.
One vantage point borrowed from Caspar David Friedrich even reveals Sven Marquardt as the iconic wanderer and the infamous Berlin nightclub ‘Berghain’ in a sea of fog.
Action and adventure are the prevailing themes of Vogel’s creations, including the romanticised gangster still-life painting featuring a cigar, gun, crystal meth, dollar bills and Herradura tequila. Then, there is the ‘survival’ still-life painting featuring a rucksack, hatchet, ethanol, tape and flint stone - similar to this is the life size sculpture of a Lidl bag Vogel additionally produced to depict the greatest resource of the homeless man in terms of survival.
Vogel has remarkably characterised the universes we create for ourselves in such a way that they are instantly recognisable and relatable. Some of these worlds have somehow faded, such as Pope Benedict XVI, who as the forerunner of Pope Francis embodied the church in person. He was depicted by Vogel shortly after his resignation on a giant canvas with his golden robe and ostentatious golden cross on the background of a divine sky. The textures and details in his portraits, as well as their colour and aesthetic, never seem to fade.
Hagen Vogel ( born 1988 in Berlin) demonstrates fan art in a whole new level. His influences range from the modern internet and gaming scene of the fan or better ‘follower’ culture and the imagery that accompanies it.
Vogel depicts his contemporary heroes using elaborate oil painting techniques which establish himself somewhere between high culture and pop art.
The seductive Lara Croft, one of the most recognisable video game characters of our time, is elevated onto a large scale canvas in all her strength and prominent femininity.
For this piece, Vogel preferred to pull references from the 2013 version of the ’Tomb Raider’ star; in which the script was written by a female and where Croft, for the first time, received a less raunchy, sexy appearance.
Vogel is a fan himself of stories and adventure - he brings virtual characters into the real world like in his paintings of Dr. Earnhardt (“Far Cry“) in front of a psychedelic mushroom harvest, Citra (“Far Cry“) as she takes the ceremonial dagger, and lastly a classical portrait of Ellie, the last human immune to the fungal virus that plagues the human race in the survival horror video game “The Last of Us“.
The artist creates sophisticated works that last for over 500 years before requiring any form of restoration by using self-made paints, fine Belgian canvas material, Swiss Gesso primers, and an alternating layering method that utilises egg tempera and oil resin paint. His characters become immortalised in carefully constructed environments using this technique.
Other pieces feature the global motifs of our time such as the infamous Captain Picard ‘meme’, which as an expression, has permanently entered the history of non-verbal communication methods among internet users.
One vantage point borrowed from Caspar David Friedrich even reveals Sven Marquardt as the iconic wanderer and the infamous Berlin nightclub ‘Berghain’ in a sea of fog.
Action and adventure are the prevailing themes of Vogel’s creations, including the romanticised gangster still-life painting featuring a cigar, gun, crystal meth, dollar bills and Herradura tequila. Then, there is the ‘survival’ still-life painting featuring a rucksack, hatchet, ethanol, tape and flint stone - similar to this is the life size sculpture of a Lidl bag Vogel additionally produced to depict the greatest resource of the homeless man in terms of survival.
Vogel has remarkably characterised the universes we create for ourselves in such a way that they are instantly recognisable and relatable. Some of these worlds have somehow faded, such as Pope Benedict XVI, who as the forerunner of Pope Francis embodied the church in person. He was depicted by Vogel shortly after his resignation on a giant canvas with his golden robe and ostentatious golden cross on the background of a divine sky. The textures and details in his portraits, as well as their colour and aesthetic, never seem to fade.
