Comic
Line, plane and exaggeration release the motifs from familiar reality. The sign is free to transform.
A visual language by Diethard Sohn · since the 1990s
Comic–Cubism
Between plane, space and simultaneity.
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Sequence condenses into the moment.
The past becomes present.
What is distant enters into relation.
The plane opens into space.
The image is matter beginning to dream.
01Selected works
Work
Individual beings, groups and situations become counterparts—as presence, relationship or a social field of forces.
02Artistic core
From object to counterpart
Perhaps reality is not divided—only our access to it is.
We cannot take up a position outside our universe. Our existence and perception remain bound to space and time.
We therefore experience reality only from one place, from one perspective and in one particular moment. Matter, energy, space and time may appear separate only because we exist within them.
Painting can make this limitation permeable for a moment. On one plane, different perspectives, bodies, memories and times can become present simultaneously.
Unity becomes multiplicity.
The plane becomes space.
Form becomes body.
The object becomes a counterpart.
03The visual language
Three forces.
One pictorial space.
Cubism
Views, perspectives and moments overlap. The sequence of perception becomes simultaneous in the image.
Spatial illusion
The sign acquires a body. Flat construction creates depth, presence and a space that does not materially exist.
In the image, sequence becomes simultaneity.
04Development
A path becomes visible.
Comic figures, Pop Art and the early question of whether the visible world might arise from a dream.
From expressive painting, Diethard Sohn develops his own visual language of Comic Cubism.
The term “Comic Cubism” is publicly coined in connection with the works of ditArdo.
The working period in Indonesia expands colour, light and the exploration of time and space.
Flat, sign-like forms increasingly combine with physicality, reality and surreal pictorial space.
05Journal
News
New works, exhibitions, projects and texts from the studio.
JAZZ’N ART
ditArdo is pleased to participate in the exhibition of the JAZZ`N`ART-Festival Plauen 2025.
Attention from New York
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06The artist
ditArdo
is Diethard Sohn.
The artist’s name does not designate a second artist, but the free, comic-cubist pole of a larger body of work.
Diethard Sohn studied at the Merz Akademie Stuttgart and has worked independently in painting and sculpture since 1984. He has been a visiting lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Merz Akademie.
In Comic Cubism, childhood memories, popular culture, Cubism, Surrealism and an increasingly spatial approach to painting combine into an independent visual language.
07Contact
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