September 2012. Two identical surfaces, 60 cm x 60 cm. One lies flat on top of the other. The upper has a 42 cm circular hole, though which the lower can be seen. I want to implement this simple idea of a collage on two-dimensional canvas. The canvas should resemble the elastic, wrinkled skin of large mammals. January 2013. I place a canvas on wet paper, prime it, the canvas shrivels. |
In search of a particular hue and its counterpart, I apply black, vermilion and crimson acrylic paints layer by layer with coarse brushes until the process comes to rest: red square area, black filled circle. I paint the next picture using black, burnt umber, full-shade brown and cerulean blue. I move the top square half-way to the right and plasticise the resulting abrasion marks. The circle becomes a semi-circle and the area lying behind is enlarged according to the amount of shift. In the next one, I rotate the upper square by 45˚. Now, the second dimension doesn't allow any more basic movements. |
Change to the third, to space. The upper square is squeezed, its circle is oval. |
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In the next picture I zoom into the black circle, into the Nano range, I find countless amounts of protozoa. |
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I visualise more pictures, zoom out, paint them. The square becomes a coloured object in white field. |
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Back to the beginning, square and circle, the matter becomes narrative, a fine brush is used: A person is sitting on a bench. A folding table is fixed to the opposite wall and in front of it there‘s a chair, whose back is pointing towards the person. |
In 1938 at 9:00 clock, René Magritte had a steam engine drive out of his fireplace, and it remains frozen in this position since then. Here in the picture, such a locomotive rushes past me and in the other has driven to where it appeared. |