Series: “Dictators with their Philosophers 1/3” 

Oil on Canvas 90x120 cm (2021) 

The work undertakes the task of exposing end of German idealism through the interpretation of the famous photograph of Hitler next to the bust of Nietzsche (Weimar, 1934).

The 2 items in the pose are reintroduced with the view placed beyond the window behind Hitler while looking at the object (bust) exhibited in a museum(Villa Silberblick). 

Heidegger's retreat, his hut in the Black Forest, breaks up the photo's two-element theme into 3 elements.

Nietzsche, who danced like a Dionysus and lost his mind in the shadows where the rational sun(Apollo) did not reach, turned into a bust with all his dignity.

The bust is monochromatic, stern, cold and majestic, the furthest from an ascetic romantic feast to which Nietzsche devoted his entire life.

It was at that very moment that the Wagnerian German chauvinism came to an end, which desired a German community that had surpassed the materialist bourgeois of the age and the antireformist vulgar attitude of religion and completed its cultural goal.

For Nietzsche, who burns with the idea of a liberating society composed of "Übermensch" who do not sculpt the individual, who are in love with the world like themselves, who have abandoned their position and realized their own revolution, this image is both sad and terrifying.

The phrase "e quovis ligno non fit Mercurius (Mercury can be made from any wood)", quoted from the preface of the work "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" of Schopenhauer, the master of the young Nietzsche, the idol he could not meet, is also striking to the extent that it reveals the whole will of history. (This quote is the reversal of the famous ancient greek proverb.) 

Leader from coward, bust from Nietzsche, house from hut can be built, poetry can be closed to museum, theory can become domination, action can turn into technique, but Dasein retains the possibility of realizing itself beyond all this heap of representation. Just like the pure and open landscape that sparkles behind this terrifying scene.