Patrick Wagner

Patrick Wagner, born in 1980, is a true printmaking virtuoso. Not only has he taught printmaking at several art colleges around Europe, he has also focused his artistic career largely on printmaking. He has carried out printmaking projects in collaboration with artists all over the world and today he runs Black Heart Press, a printshop in Bubbemåla, Småland. Patrick Wagner is educated at the art academies in Helsinki, Bergen and Kiel.

Within the framework of the artist’s interest in prints, studies of medieval small-format prints are included. In these, are often found ”dance macabre” or dance of death motives, in which skeletons are shown seemingly living like human beings – they dance, eat, drink, maybe they even have a dog. Wagner has brought this medieval motif into his contemporary artistry, and "living", humorous skeletons are a recurring motif in his world of images.