Doppeldenk is an artist duo from Leipzig consisting of Marcel Baer and Andreas Glauch who produce graphical paintings and sculptures. Their name is a reference to George Orwell's 1984 and refers to having two contradicting beliefs in one mind — and accepting both.
Marcel Baer and Andreas Glauch use this term as a topos for their work, which makes use of pop and subculture through its bright neon colors, thus insinuating a certain familiarity. The modernity of their formal aesthetics combines both primary flash colors taken in a minimal constructivist constraint, creating a radically post-pop-art aesthetic at the borders of mangaisation and the 8-bit culture of the 1980s.
Their iconic images, borrowed from religion, politics, and pop culture, form portraits and scenes that go through Marcel Baer and Andreas Glauch's criticism and humor. The Leipzig-based duo uses the suggestive power of mass cultural symbolism, which in its creation is usually represented as pictograms or idealized characters — merging popular aesthetics with complex philosophical questioning.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2014 · Die Happy! · OPEN WALLS Gallery · Berlin
