“ROOFTOP DANCING” IS THE TITLE OF RUDOLF’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DIARY IN THE FORM OF EIPOPS. IN RUDOLF’S LIFE, THE WORD “BOREDOM” DOES NOT EXIST. THIS IS REFLECTED BY HIS EIPOPS.
EIPOPS (A WORD CREATED BY RUDOLF- SEE PAGE “WHAT DOES EIPOP MEAN?”) ARE COLOURFUL, SOMETIMES NAIVE CARICATURE-LIKE DRAWINGS THAT, WITH A CERTAIN SELF-IRONY, DEPICT CERTAIN ADVENTURES, SCENES AND EXPERIENCES FROM RUDOLF’S PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE LIFE.
RUDOLF’S EIPOP DRAWINGS REPRESENT SEVERAL DECADES OF OBSERVATIONS OF FAME, GLAMOUR, VANITY AND DECADENCE IN THE BIG-CITY-WORLDS HE VISITED OR LIVED IN FOR A LONG TIME (PARIS, BERLIN, LONDON, NEW YORK, ZURICH, COLOGNE, HAMBURG, MONACO, BRUSSELS, BANGKOK, SAN FRANCISCO, TOKYO, KYOTO, KUALA LUMPUR, MARRAKESH, AGADIR, NICE, BARBADOS, MADRID, LISBOA, SAIGON, HAWAII, ISTANBUL, WARSAW, VIENNA, BUDAPEST, BRATISLAVA, STOCKHOLM, PLOVDIV).
EVEN IN TIMES OF NOTORIOUS SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY, THERE ARE MOMENTS IN DAILY LIFE, WHICH CANNOT BE CAUGHT BY EVEN THE MOST TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHER BUT CAN BE MUCH BETTER CAPTURED BY ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS.
RUDOLF HAS DEVELOPED HIS PARTICULAR WAY OF OBSERVING AND MOCKING ABOUT THE PARTICULARS OF LIFE IN HIP SOCIETIES. AT FIRST VIEW, RUDOLF’S COLOURFUL DETAILED EIPOP IMAGES MAY LOOK NAÏVE. BUT WHEN TAKING A CLOSER LOOK, THE OBSERVER WILL DISCOVER THAT THEY ARE FULL OF HIDDEN MOCKERY, (SELF-) IRONY AND SARCASM.
RUDOLF’S EIPOPS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY AMUSING LIMERICK POEMS (SEE PAGE “LIMERICK POEMS”) OR SHORT HUMOROUS ESSAYS (SEE PAGE “EIPOP-STORIES”) THAT UNDERLINE THE IRONIC CHARACTER OF HIS DRAWINGS AND GIVE SOME BACKGROUND ON THE STORY BEHIND.
