LIONEL MACHRIS


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SERIES OF GRACE


The creation of beauty, the natural grace of movement, the special connection of mind and body. Grace is dignified, lovely, grateful.

THE GRACEFUL

2018

29,5 x 42cm

THE RESOLUTE

2021

75 x 114cm

TRILOGY OF LIFE


A cycle that it can not escape.

Beginning with birth, the awakening of consciousness. Primarily characterized by learning and gaining experience.

The existence. The emerged I moves with the firmly anchored learned independently through life.

Then comes the inevitable, of which we know so little. The end, the death or the transformation into another level. Exitus, the going out of life, the change, the detachment of the spirit from the body.

And again a birth begins, but is it the same spirit? What happens to the spirit?

ERWACHEN

2021

75 x 114cm

( No. 2 and No. 3 in work )

THE LEVELS OF TIME


Timelessness - At the beginning of life, time does not matter. We are children, growing up and discovering the world.

Infinity - In the middle of life, there are no limits. Life seems endless. We are here forever.

Eternity - Life has shaped us and shows its limits. Eternity is the next level

UNENDLICHKEIT

2020

100 x 150cm

SEVEN VIRTUES


Virtue, the central category of ethics since at least Aristotle, first spread under the Greek philosopher Plato. He coined and taught the concept of the four basic virtues, which describe the striving of people to become a useful person. Justice ( Justitia ), temperance ( Temperantia ), fortitude ( Fortitudo ) and prudence, under Plato - prudent wisdom ( Prudentia ), formed the group of virtues known to the Greek nobility since the 6th century BC. 

The basic ethical rules spread in the Roman world, the teaching of virtues was also spread in Judaism. The Catechism expanded the four basic virtues with three "divine virtues", faith ( Fides ), hope ( Spes ), love ( Caritas ) and can be traced back to the Apostle Paul. 

The combination of the four cardinal virtues and the three divine virtues still characterizes life today and stands for the good behavior of a person. 


Inspired by the question of whether one lives according to the virtues, Lionel Machris gave each one a face of different ethnicities. Through the symbolism of the mask and the comparable representation, they are connected, forming the circle of virtues that no one can escape. Not averting their gaze, they fix a neutral, calmly waiting gaze on the viewer, who must ask himself whether he carries this and lives by it.


The virtues make us what we are. They are not a question of faith or origin. They are part of all human beings.

JUSTITIA

2019

50 x 75cm

CARITAS

2019

50 x 75cm

FORTITUDO

2019

50 x 75cm

TEMPERANTIA

2019

50 x 75cm

SPES

2019

50 x 75cm

FIDES

2019

50 x 75cm

PRUDENTIA

2019

50 x 75cm

VORSEHUNG

PROVIDENCE


The gift of foreseeing and influencing fate and events.

2021

30 x 40cm

WÄCHTER

GUARDIANS


Those that surround us, that we don't hear, see, feel. They are always there. Virtually they capture everything. They observe us! Every minute.

WÄCHTER 1

Die Virtuellen

2022

75 x 114CM

WÄCHTER 2

Die Sehenden

2022

75 x 114CM

WÄCHTER 3

Die Hörenden

2021

75 x 114CM

ELEMENTS


The six elements that surround us. 

Time. It determines everything, the pace, the elements, life. It creates the rhythm in which everything can exist. Without time there is nothing! 

Space! Everything that surrounds us and more. Everything that was there before we were there, and everything that remains when we are no longer here. 

Earth, fire, water, air. They give life. Existence. The elements can be without life, we cannot live without the elements.

ZEIT

2022

75 x 114cm

ERDE

2022

50 x 75cm

WASSER

2022

50 x 75cm

FEUER

2022

50 x 75cm

LUFT

2022

50 x 75cm

RAUM

2022

75 x 114cm

DORIAN 


He's not getting any older..... but who can't escape the rules of life?

2020

30 x 40cm

DIE TISCHDAME

It is sacrifice that makes us human?


2021

65,5 x 80cm

THE FINAL COURSE 


The end. Or is it the beginning of something new? The transformation into another state. Or the dissolution of the body, the ego. Final!

We do not know. But we will know.



WOHIN

2020

30 x 40cm

DER LETZTE GANG

2021

30 x 40cm

KLEINE BEGIERDEN

DESIRE

Isn't it all about passion, love and desire?

UNE MOITIÉ EST LE DÉSIR

2022

75 x 114cm

LE MATIN

2022

75 x 114cm

LA FLEUR DE LIS

2022

75 x 114cm

OBSESSION

2022

75 X 114cm

AUGENBLICKE

MOMENTS

What we think we see can turn out to be something else if we change our perspective.

DIE ERKENNTNIS DES

AUGENBLICKS

2022

75 x 114cm

DAS INNERE ICH

2022

75 x 114cm

REFLEXION DER PERSPEKTIVE 

2022

75 x 114cm

LOVERS



VORSPIEL

2022

75 x 114cm

BEWAHRER

KEEPER



HÜTER DES LICHTS

2022

114 x 75cm

ZWIESPALT

DISCREPANCY

DIE GEBURT DES DRACHENS

2021

114 x 75cm

EXHIBITION

ABOUT LIONEL

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