Dominic Timm (b. 1998, Munich) is a German artist based in Augsburg. He studied theatre and Slavic literatures, a background that informs his exploration of images and their cultural significance.
My artistic practice is fundamentally shaped by the classical philosophical concepts of the beautiful and the sublime. In my work, I seek ways to evoke a depth that points beyond the human, leaving the viewer in a state of awe at their own smallness.
At least, this is the ultimate aim. Set against this, however, is an ever-present self-critical dimension of this endeavor, which is reflected in an ambiguous relationship to the irony of the banal. A large portion of my realistic paintings is based on photographs I find on Instagram. Here, I focus on a certain black-and-white aesthetic that functions as a deliberate stylistic device, suggesting depth where perhaps there is none (or perhaps there is).
In this way, I examine the mechanisms of (personal and collective) identification and meaning-making in the viewing and production of specific images.
In the act of painting and viewing — where these two aspects are, in terms of production, one and the same, since painting is viewing — the question of one’s own affective response to the painted image, as well as its elevation through the process of painting, occupies a central role. Painting itself — in the form of abstraction — is thus becoming increasingly significant for me and represents a natural development of my original program.
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