After a long pause, the return to squares in the next year 1983 opens a consequential path. In this year pictures were formed both according to the principle of the former year as well as based on a new approach. This co-existence is a result of an urge to communicate, leading to a processing of poetic impressions, often having priority over innovative experiments. This is the reason that until the end of 1983, the visual principle, which proved itself in previous years, is utilized now time and again. At the same time, however, the handling of the square is developed further and connected to the earlier used principle of pattern. A patterned All-over is created which, though composed of color zones however, withdraws the character of the color zones reducing the square again to what it is: a shape. A color zone is formed though now through a complete All-over. It is about an approximate transparent color zone which captures the whole format and which contains color-carrying elements as well as “empty” spaces. This quasi transparency enables a new picture principle: layering. When the patterned All-over is rotated in a certain angle and then layered on top of another All-over, the partial transparency allows a free view of the pattern underneath. There are strong ties to the pictures of 1974/1975. A complete All-over is created from the entire process of layering and thus, as previously, an even color distribution. The difference lies in a new tension between regularity and irregularity. The complete All-over is now only subjective and essentially more Pollock than the objective All-over of 1974. The new pattern comprises several layers that are essentially the same but new situations of layering are created through the angle rotation. Every layer carries a color. From the irregularity of the layering an irregularity in the distribution of white that creates the background is a result. Through this, the cumulation and ebbing of light is implied. This picture principle thus creates a new picturesque effect.
Acrylic on canvas
110 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
110 x 80 cm
Sammlung
Gisela Gehrke
