Markus Draese: Pictures, Texts, Overview,
Some highly subjective comments on the work of Markus Draese

By Markus Lepper, 1995
(Markus Lepper is a musical composer. He lives and works in Essen and Berlin.)

Markus Draese and the writer of these lines come from the same village, attended the same academy of higher education, and have similar social backgrounds. This leads the author to assume that those things that he discovers they have in common, indeed, that are identical in method and technique in Draese`s work and his own musical compositions, are not purely incidental, but have specific spatial and temporal roots and are perhaps worth communicating to the interested reader.

The essential and constitutive elements in Draese`s graphic work is his conscious "quoting" from art history. These quotes are to be found at different levels of the work, they can be: conceptual, formal, technical and also at the "literal" level.

The attitude inherent in this quote-making implies the setting up of an artistic hypothesis.