Philipp Hölke

Art

Anatomy of a Politician

A masked, blank-eyed figure crowned in rays, built from raw line over black — oratory with nothing behind the face. Politicians whispering sweet nothings into the wind.

A raw, Basquiat-like figure of a politician drawn in white, orange, blue and magenta line over a black-and-purple field on white paper; a masked, blank-eyed face crowned with purple and gold rays, with hand-lettered capitals reading "One two three" above and "Don't turn your" below.

A figure built from raw line — white, orange, blue, magenta over black — masked and blank-eyed beneath a crown of purple and gold rays. The pose is oratory; the face gives nothing back. Across the top runs a count, one two three, and along the bottom a warning that never finishes: don’t turn your…

Politicians whispering sweet nothings into the wind.

The arrows and little boxes scattered across the torso read like the diagram the title promises — an anatomy not of a body but of a performance, all gesture and no content, addressed to no one and carried off by the air.