26.03 – 24.09
Carsten Westphal, Fancher Brinkmann
Bernhard Edmaier, Christoph Jakob
The rough and fine structures of the dried-out, torn soil, the burst coarse gravel, the sand dunes that the winds have formed, all this draws the artist Carsten Westphal to the deserts. He mixes the materials, which he finds there, the salt, the sand, the soil and the dust pigments, with colour pigments and bonding agents and applies them onto the canvas using trowels and brushes. Thus, he creates telluric landscapes, mirror images of the elementary powers, which created these landscapes, structure paintings, which can only develop like this in the deserts.
R. Fancher Brinkmann’s paintings widely relinquish shape and form, leaving impalpable surfaces and fields that work entirely through the impact of their color.Colors provoke sensations and feelings in every person, whether consciously or subconsciously. “Every person sees something different in my paintings. That is the wonder of abstract art.”
R. Fancher Brinkmann’s paintings widely relinquish shape and form, leaving impalpable surfaces and fields that work entirely through the impact of their color.Colors provoke sensations and feelings in every person, whether consciously or subconsciously. “Every person sees something different in my paintings. That is the wonder of abstract art.”
Christoph Jakob lets the stone tell its story, but listening is not a contemplative process but hard back-breaking work. But the ability to listen leads to the artist not imposing his design ideas on the stone, but allowing them to develop in sensitive correspondence with the natural conditions of the material, the design concept developing in harmony with the properties of the stone.
