ARTMUC 01 TO 04 MAY 2025

It's these images in me: this jungle in Borneo. This almost opaque, sometimes diffuse wall of color that makes you tired, but at the same time grabs you, awakens your senses as if in a dream and forces you to break it open. Then the vibrant colors flow onto the pale canvas: a sea of colors. Broad brushes plow through the impasto wall on the canvas, furrows appear, tree trunks in the light and in the dark. “You can paint pictures without brushes,” Gerhard Richter proves with his squeegee. It is fascinating that you cannot plan in detail what a “squeegee painting” will look like in the end. Plastic scrapers create small dams of colored strands, spatulas and rollers move over the resulting landscape, leveling it out again where I want it. Walls and furrows become the smooth, rough pattern, the world of colors that I so desire.