Both themes represent a transition from the preferred esplorations in the early 90s to space
and rhythm by layers or sequences. A semi-abstract viewing of the general perception like surface - density - nearness -
distance - light, etc. is made through the metaphor landscape.
The series “Weiden” was created for an exhibition
in 1996 at Weiden (Bavaria) for which the literal sense “Weiden” (name for a tree species – lat.
Salix…, but also for a meadow) can be used ambivalently. These terms also stand for natural and cultural landscape.
UNKNOWN LANDSCAPE
I see unknown landscapes as metaphor for making the world visible.
From the catalogue “Unbekannte Landschaften. Der schöne Blick täuscht”
(Unknown Landscapes. The beautiful view is deceptive)
Publisher: Karl Stutz, Passau, 2002
Citation: no outside no inside everything floating
in the Po Plain thinking of the Himalaya
landscape loses in itself
who penetrates the thicket, is incapable of perceiving all,
but who does not penetrate, will be deceived by the standstill of the distance
From the catalogue “Unbekannte Landschaften” (Unknown Landscapes)
Edition: Johannes von Geymüller
Essen-Werden, 1999
Citation: The imagination landscape is created layer by layer
Landscape as interpretable surface of complex processes
The real picture of only hard to make out procedures
Aesthetics of seemingly completely unclear inner structures
Landscape as suggestion of experienced (al)location
What is worrying me?
Landscape as picture of my narrowness?
Or does it even calm me?
MASKS
I have been involved into the project Masks since the 1970s. More than thousand
mainly brush and chalk drawings as well as sculptural objects originated.
Theme is the falling back of the human being to its genetic and social history expressed in the “other face”.
Also the art of fantasy through apparently possible shapes is an aspect.
A dialog with ethnic masks developed only in the last years with Hans Jacques Keller, the Swiss mask collector.