ART GALLERY / Text translated by Google / In truth, I am writing to you in truth, the whole story begins April 23, 1616 when
Balthasar Helmlinger Lichtenberg, the ancestor of Philhelm, 10 generations earlier, loses
Monogram Philhelm when he was 7 years old at the time of the facts!
In 1998, his descendant, decided for the first time to exhibit his work in public and
participate in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence in 1999.
Philhelm chose to paint the epic lives of seven of the 10 children living in total isolation with the
Monogram single emblem, in a world where the adults were absent. Theme
chosen is a tribute to the city of Florence for its pioneering role in Europe in
Protection of children abandoned or lost, from the late thirteenth century!
The story of the innocent is first written without lying, then staging finally painted
acrylic on a triptych open 2m 40 x 1m 20 m = 95 x 47 inches. The composition is spread over 4
identical tablets of 0.60 x 1 m 20 = 24 x 47 inches, with two plants are mounted on a single
chassis. Only the interior shelves are shown at the Biennale, whose settlement
provides for a maximum of 3 paintings per artist. But for that there is no beginning and no end to formal
the story of abandoned children, Philhelm planned to paint early in the New Year
The backs of the shutters triptych. So everyone can interpret the story in his own way
opening or closing one of the components, or both! Of course, he will also
let him in the history of the past by trying to go back to the Middle Ages, so it
can better penetrate into the table to try to discover the hidden causes of
things!
OPEN TRYPTICH
AVERS COMPONENT LEFT:
FIRE IN THE NIGHT OR IGNORANCE OF EVIL.
FIRST LIFE / top left: We are in Purgatory in the Wheel of Fortune. The wheel turns,
the story changes, the violence continues! for children only seven are inside, there
clearly a stoning.
Three other children are between two worlds ... Why would one of them is dressed as a fool? What omen owl pierces's In the darkness of ignorance? The lamb will t'-it or thrown down? At you one switched the girl out or did she fall? Is she whipped the boy's passage through
scale or is he going to do? He commend Manifesto of joy or disapproval by the resounding fart? Did he committed the crime to exist, who was flayed alive and whose only skin and hair are extended to the top of a mast? Where is his body? Which world is it? Is there a relationship t' more terrible, justifying the alarming flight of seven bats, which come confondrent in a deployment unreal?
2nd LIFE / middle: On the extreme left, a boy sits on three skulls and a club! It
seems to be waiting with delight when he can use his razor ... note however that
wears on his head a sign of the artist: phil (bones) in Greek and German helm. A tree is planted sterile
behind two kids that are not only hassle ... A snake tied itself
form of "pretzel" (salty pastry Alsatian). A whip with spiked strips based on one of
12 steps of a ladder! At the center of the table, set back behind a wide boy
about to sacrifice a ram ... The Roman portico composed of poles and bars with 3
Children below is itself a cascade of deadly riddles ... the birds seem to hang
still alive? Converse among themselves? The donkey tied upside seems to contemplate the agony of
the girl or her lost crown? But was it his? What will happen with the little girl? Will it
fall into hell or a more cruel fate reserved for him?
We identify the year of the table, one year before the year two thousand!
3rd LIFE / down: We're obviously into hell and two distinct groups clash:
one side 7 children in trouble in the flames, the other three pairs of snakes,
dragons and birds, and the beast that is never named by name, to avoid it
believe to be called and she rushes to spread the evil! Ambroise Pare said to have seen in the
belly of one of his patients! But especially the symbolism of hiding it is
precisely where and in this position: its rapprochement with the emblem monogram
under the protective wing of a female bird from hell, is not without malice ...!
We find four new skulls, separated from the previous three, and a few scattered bones ...
As for children, each of you will decide the fate reserved for them ...
Remember that we are in the color of blood and violence ...
But especially in the element of fire!
LEFT CENTRAL PART OF TABLE
WATER OR THE DAWN IN THE ESCAPE TO A BETTER WORLD?
FOURTH LIFE / top: Obviously these children are a short trip, only their companions
Game accompanying with them or on them! They may well come from the countryside
to seek his fortune in Firenze?
5th LIFE / middle: They're sailors, but they are not really different, they come
Perhaps a distant island and seek the same thing: freedom and wealth! Have- you
noticed that the wind blows the sails of hope swells at the same time
monogram of the artist? Look closely and it will appear soon with evidence ...
6th LIFE / down: Although there is no real timeline in the last 3 lives, these
children come from much further away with the same goal and they hasten clinging to their
frames ... Only the first is serene, his animal is the slowest, it is just beginning to
learn the alphabet, not Latin but Greek! He knows he must be able to assimilate
forward later his knowledge to his companions. Time did not matter, a new
alphabet and each child born will inherit secretly a capital letter.
At the bottom of these three lives, note the exact position of each item and then compare them
with other tables and find their correspondence and perhaps their secret?
Of course, I'll help a bit ... you do the rest! Let's start with the jar upside down, it
is the most hated symbol of the Church ... (I mean that of an ancient time!) The symbol
is female, represented by any jar, here reversed and in addition with a liquid
beyond it: the ultimate horror?
The two bees with their foster sphere, it is easier, but remember their relationship
with the jar or the direction they take, have you noticed that it is only the
Table takeout food?
But is it food or larva? The children have no luggage, no food, they have
their animals ... you'll discover soon enough the importance of this cruel detail, you said
detail?
Remember that we are in the color of illusion and uncertainty ...
But especially in the element of water!

PART OF TABLE RIGHT CENTER
EARTH OR THE TWILIGHT OF THE WEALTH
7th LIFE / top: The Seventh, because it is the culmination of every dream, without being
end!
You notice without penalty, that we are in a life where the research material and artistic
has its importance. Compare the "slack" (with the previous table!). To open the
walk, we find for the second time a child dressed in clothes that hide a body we
would know to see in a world where money makes us lose our innocence ... but for us
show as we want to be seen: this is why the child is dressed in a crazy paradox, which he
can regain its original purity without any Thomism, since faith and reason exist
not in our 10 lives!
Have you found meaning in the disturbing scepter that our hero is at arm's length? Why
cathartic gesture? Imagine you one disgust and fear? Did you recognize the head of the goat
symbol of lust? Is there still life in this stick ithyphallic and what life is it
? Is life itself, so the sperm? If so, is the elimination of all
parents that we are witnessing, simple revenge against the cowards who have abandoned their
offspring? Is it something else? Urine for example? A body impure liquid that is discharged
because it no longer serves to keep alive? But perhaps you have imagined a third option?
8th LIFE / down: We have entered the magnificence, and our children have fallen into
recklessness of their games. The memory of the animals is present in at least two hoops,
they are made from their bones! The horses of wood littering the ground, they
waiting for the whim of the innocent. Among the various objects scattered, rattle, router, mills
wind, especially at central level include the exact position of the cup spilled prestigious symbol of
the church that we are more accustomed to seeing in a sacred ... Our giddy elevation, seem to have
somewhat altered the precious container and a dash of liquid escapes again, to give
Life drip with heavy and bulky flowers from the bottom. Did you also
noticed the exact position of the two roundabouts over the bouquet? Sound familiar
there anything? What new meaning attributed to this symbol? The other two horses
wood, how they lead us prosopée? Could they talk among themselves? From past
course! And the left one, is not as he looks to the past? After he had
both a name and a meaning and a life! Is not this the life he looks in that sphere nourishing
which seems to meet him through another world?
Remember that we are in the color that is not one, perfect for all
colors ...
But especially in the element of earth!
AVERS OF LAW SECTION
AIR OR THE DAY OF HARMONY
9th LIFE / top: Sunlight and music radiates the table ...
10th & LAST LIFE OF GRAND TRIPTYCH OPEN: All colors of the world
which were supposed to be in the rainbow (in the Middle - Ages), reappear in a
musical concentration, for the sake of a little girl watching us and dancing
playing the tambourine. Note that this is the only one in 70 children who looks out of
table: it challenges us to focus our attention on the long journey from the night, where
orphan, she has crossed all the snares of death and life, to succeed, only one
all to enter the center of harmony ... It reminds us that children are extremely rare
abandoned or lost, which this ultimate life ... in the past, one in three children
die before the age of five! At the bottom, in a cartridge, is the signature of
Artist ... To mark the breaking of symmetries present in the three previous tables
all musical instruments are aligned in the opposite direction ...
Remember that we are in the color of sunlight ...
But especially in the element of air!
GENERAL REMARKS
THE DIVINE COMEDY timelessness of:
About 23 April 1616, when my ancestor lost the monogram Philhelm two
giants of world literature, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died one
Both on the same day and yet ten days apart? Simply because
Pope Gregory XIII decided in the fall of 1582, strike suddenly ten calendar days of
Julius Caesar to install his own which is now ours. In Europe and rebellious
fought in the wars of religion, the measure is evenly followed "... especially among Protestants
who prefer to be in disagreement with the sun that agree with the Pope! "According to Johannes
Kepler.
At that time, my whole family was so Protestant as the decade faded in Time
contamination even Chronology, which allowed my ancestors to lose my monogram
1616! To conclude this decade strongly contested, it has endured enough
long to drift up to eleven and thirteen days in England in Russia! Everyone
was sane!
Regarding the monogram, remember all the same, she will be found much later
Argentoratum in the year 1664 ... we certainly will talk again!
About abandoned children: it is true that when we arrived on earth, we are called
death and that "from birth, humans are already old enough to die" according to Martin
Heidegger. Today, however, in the streets of megacities worldwide, they are more
one hundred million, left to themselves, with the single law: the freedom with hunger, cold, violence,
prostitution and the issue with his sweet death!
Millions more children are exploited, abused or enslaved in fields,
factories, mines, kitchens and brothels! The unbearable is also behind the doors of our
homes, in our country or hiding other violent tragedies, incestuous or disaffection!
About this Philhelm monogram on each table: the first three are located on a
diagonal axis upward, to indicate only sighted, the message metamorphosis of the artist!
This discovery is also accessible to all those who take the trouble to discover
then decode their symbolism:
Lower Table 1: evil! Middle of the 2nd: Freedom! Top of 3rd: victory! Bottom of 4th:
virtuality! Tucked away in the first two letters of the signature, monogram fell to its
first level, fortunately in another life ... to take us on a virtual end.
About two-part closed: you will never see the helmet to the extreme left join
the artist's signature on the far right, inside the triptych, but you may be one of
only to know, and that alone counts! And let's continue the artist's ego.
About Girls: without any distinction of color or origin, since
all the world's children are concerned, why girls are less present than they
boys? Taking always reference the Middle Ages, only one percent of
illustrations bring girls on stage, as the writings: only males are concerned
exceptional case of a girl, it is often said "female child"! To glorify
role of girls, I brought this figure to one in seven! And if in the first three lives of the night
and evil, their fate is no better, since the dawn of the 4th everything changes ... She is sitting
in a basket and a boy who takes on all fours! It is the bow! It
protects the fragile boy living dead who clings on the back of his boar! It is the pinnacle of
glory, the monogram hand! It is the center of the table, amid the hoop! It
under the sun! It is the main character of 10 lives!
About the horizon discernible: it hounds on the four tables, forming a
final loop, it will serve to guide us in new introductions and conclusions
Variables provided on the side ....
About the light: in the twelfth century, wood carvers materialized by night
the solid black, hatched by the dawn, the day the white and dusk by the screened! If
want to see something else, feel free to imagine the rain, snow, stars only dream ...
important!
About prospects of hatchings and screened: they were drawn with the old
a piece of wood and a string: the very tight as a bow that tend or relaxes according
... desired curves, with benchmarks previously drawn on the string. ... Watch
carefully screened, you will discover a progressive variation of space curves
influenced by the straight lines and shapes, rounded oval in the middle and lower
Table ... ... Same for the hatch.
About the twilight of wealth is a reference to the victory of the Franciscan
treaty on spiritual Bacchiacca Da Casale, who denounced the luxury around 1310
ostentatious of the Church and demanded pauperism. We find ourselves on the back right
component, which will allow everyone to modify the story in his own way ... But let's not forget
that if Florence is now in its magnificence, is rich with this Order of
Santa Croce, which will allow the greatest artists of all time to exist and create
most beautiful city in the world!
About the day of harmony is the reference to Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was the first in
Middle Ages, promote the creation of an Academy of Music in Florence! And it was
certainly to be rich to be able to enter, as we soon will enter into a
harmony more humble, you understand, since everyone has his own ... Yours
Perhaps your garden grow?
Postscript of the triptych open: The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Florence
1999 brought together 520 artists from 32 countries.
The opening day of the Biennale, on the request
Philhelm, John T. Spike has cut the umbilical cord and
opened the shutters of the triptych, freeing children
inside!
On 11 December 1999 to 17 hours, the Official Opening
the awards ceremony began with the City of
Florence. Wink timeline, guess who received the
prize?

TRYPTIQUE CLOSED
Completed in year 2000
BACK OF LEFT FLAP:
THE BIRTH OR RECOGNITION BY PEERS.
All in all (500-428 Anaxagoras av.J-C)
BACK OF THE RIGHT FLAP:
DEATH OR THE WRATH OF THE GODS.
If it is so close, although it is calling us. The creator surprised everyone, both the
sky low is its height. If you reject destiny, fold the right pane and history
change. Now you no longer have much to learn from the artist, you distills
some final details and questions:
LAST LIFE / top: About Children shorn, it is a custom which continues today
today in some tribes, called wild, where all the family cuts the head to death
one of his. This sign of recognition and temporal physics is far from ours,
that often accompany our departed time a mass!
About the monogram, you noticed that not only is deformed or twisted,
but it is also stuck in the third dimension of the table! I leave you free
interpret this resistance, as well as everything that will follow, especially since we will
leave ...
... / Down: About the child hanging from the tree or the tree?
About Children recumbent on the ground?
About a plant-flower that arise from the dead?