ECB
Probing the memories of silent time so serpentine and careworn focus dripping wisps of the sublime, German artist ECB has truly taken monumental portraiture to the next level. Painting abstract stories of earthy reality into the creases and peeling back shrouded identity from the furrowed brows, his faces have become deeply iconic as vast bastions of complex humanity burning strands of individuation into the cold concrete. Broken faces of a fractured hue of monochrome peer beyond the facades as rigid typography contrasts image against word, mathematics against intuition, sky against earth as his superb technique and depth of feeling whisper lost fragments
of fleeting wholes into the seemingly anonymous cityscape and the vortices of urban lonliness Every face tells a thousand tales and hints at a thousand more as the sepia spectrum of nurtured, almost scupltural nuance floats ever further into the hallows of the mind. Protrusions and bulging extrusions warp through the curved lenses of perception and breathe a shadowy contrast into the barren winter of stripped back symphonics. Pain and pathos wash up against the weight of quiet dignity and trickle through the weathered stoicism of a face - a soul exposed. We caught up with Hendrik to look a little further..