Johannes Wohnseifer (b. 1967)

Johannes Wohnseifer's Diamond (after I.B.) is painted with comic mysticism: its corporate logo a meditative fixation, accompanied by a haiku-like slogan. Humorously playing on spiritualism as a by-product of global enterprise, Wohnseifer's Diamond (after I.B.) places advertising as the new religious art, extolling the virtues of faceless powers. Glossy, smooth and surface-perfect, this paintings vacuous sentiment is replicated as echoing sublimity. Each work in this series has the same format: poster-sized paintings formalising subversive signs - themselves desirous commodities, loaded with philosophical meaning.