when I paint, I only think
in colors and structures ...
MY PAINTING
… I feel a connection to Art Informel, admire Jean Fautrier and Antoni Tàpies, and enjoy minimal art and action painting. I’m always on the lookout for new elements, structures, and materials: corrugated cardboard, newspaper wallpaper, baking and wrapping paper, endless computer sequences, and rotary rolls. I enjoy working on large formats. Techniques: whatever appeals to me—from linocut to monotype and watercolor to scratch and mixed media techniques using acrylics. New discoveries: material paintings and relief objects. Installations.
I have been painting, "installing" and working with spaces and dimensions for over 30 years. And there are always new feelings, new ideas, new colors and structures that fascinate me, and I want to savor them, work on them, and where there is no turning back.
When I paint, I create moods, I almost never have something representational in front of my inner eye.Because a camera can express the figurative better and more technically. (About my exhibition "Man in the Cross" in the cloister of Metten Monastery, July 2000).
Why “Untitled”: I don’t want to steer the viewer in a particular direction from the outset. I don’t want to impose a ready-made narrative on them. I want to stimulate their imagination; I want them to let it run free. And then the viewer often discovers—completely unintentionally on my part—interesting, unique forms and figures, images within the image. (On my exhibition “Netzwerk,” June 1992)