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In his most recent paintings, Hartmut Neumann asks the fundamental question about the "what if ...?" and goes into a painterly answer search. What if ... for whatever reason, humanity suddenly disappears from the globe? Just because. What would the big cities and metropolises look like in 2110 and another hundred years later, in 2210?
It is a play of ideas, but it seems obvious that all …
In his most recent paintings, Hartmut Neumann asks the fundamental question about the "what if ...?" and goes into a painterly answer search. What if ... for whatever reason, humanity suddenly disappears from the globe? Just because. What would the big cities and metropolises look like in 2110 and another hundred years later, in 2210?
It is a play of ideas, but it seems obvious that all the vegetation, with its trees, shrubs, plants, moss, flowers, fruit will flourish and recapture or at least overgrow all spaces. Neumann presents this "all-over" in his great pictures of …