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As Nebe explores the psychotic imprisonments of the mind, brought about by an age in which simulation and simultaneity leave us with little sense of time nor of space, and even less sense of the body, hope for the alleviation of the self dwindles. Nebe’s game of silhouettes turns into a frightening sanctuary. Thus Nebe brings to mind what it means to have traded your body for the shadow, or as Baudrillard put it: “We have all lost our real shadows, we no longer speak to them and our bodies have left with them”. Is there any other exit strategy but to unplug ourselves from the wires that promise an “augmented reality”, to break away from the incessant mirror stages of our multiple identities which are no more than shades in a game, in which it is all about exorcizing the “I” and about the obsession to gain control over “1”s and “0”? Is there such a thing as a “place of safety” or a sheltering moment of inertness? (“The Crushing Shadow” by Rebecca Schoensee, Humanize Magazine, issue #8, pg 44-61)
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Nebe, who holds degrees in psychology and literature, is a self taught artist, born in Hamburg
but now located in Berlin. The different shades he conjures up haven’t gone unnoticed in the art
world, and seem to be on the rise. Paintings of his, touching on the topic of ritual sacrifice are
part of the Joop van den Ende Collection in Hamburg and “Philosophical Cartoons” is part of
the Collection of DIAF ( = Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm). Important exhibitis include
Intrude Art and Life at the Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai in 2008, where Santiago
Capriccio, a short epilogue to the Philosophical Cartoon cycle, playing upon the “4th
Dimension” Video was chosen to be one out of 100 non-Chinese artists to be displayed on
public video screens in Shanghai. In the same year, the film was shown at the Edinburgh Art
Festival. “Climate Change Cartoons”was part of the exhibition “Letters from the Sky” which accopagned the Durban UN conference on Climate Change 2011 in South Africa.
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