Merzmensch - Jumping

From the series: NeoreAIlism
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Merzmensch – Jumping

A jump.
An outcry.
A collective breath between standstill and explosion.

In Springen, Merzmensch captures the moment before something happens—or perhaps the very moment when something unspeakable happens. A man in a suit takes off, his knees bent, his arms spread like wings. Beside him: faces filled with anticipation, excitement, shock, and excitement.

What are we seeing here? A festival? A revolt? A journey through time?
The fashion, the cobblestones, the expression of the crowd—everything recalls a postwar era that never existed. As with all the works in the Neorealism series, this image is entirely constructed. Yet therein lies its power: It creates history by harnessing—and shifting—our collective memory patterns.

The leap becomes a metaphor: for the courage to break free. For breaking free from expectations. For the ridiculous beauty of human exaggeration.

Merzmensch isn't choreographing a scene here—he's composing a feeling: the feeling of being in-between. Between ground and sky. Between mass and individual. Between gesture and meaning.