**Das Schwert, 2014**

Oil, acrylic and varnish on canvas
140 x 180 cm

**The artist: Oliver Blum**

Oliver Blum is a German painter and a former student of the renowned contemporary artist Albert Oehlen at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. His paintings shed light on the journey of self-exploration, freeing oneself from artistic norms and provocation that rises from within.

"Maybe my pictures are psychograms, images of my state of mind, spontaneously grown self-portraits in the end. However, the images do what they want anyway, they lure me into the unknown, a land of the creative, of uncertainties and into a world of surprises. Each of these images starts as an absolute blind flight, ending in great results that are able to speak for themselves." (Oliver Blum)