Nomada / The Nomad

A large unprimed piece of canvas, a gestural neo- expressionist work. It shows a grown structure reminiscent of the weave of branches or plants and seemingly the result of a hard struggle against the blank, against unexploited area. It was created lying flat on the floor, as can easily be seen from the traces of bare feet. Black interwined lines, drawn with an oilstick, which necessarily means close to the canvas, seem to spread out into all directions. Walking away from order, the artist cannot know or predict what the end product will look like. As he walks and moves above the painting while it develops, it seems to be about something else here. An engagement with the unknown, the unpredictable and a process of condensation. When movement is registered in space, we are dealing with an approach to music, to rhythm and to dance. Every movement, every decision will necessarily leave its traces, which of course can be read in this case as a metaphor for life.The viewer is therefore not witnessing the depiction of a recognizable reality, but the representation of an experience of reality. Only at second glance does one notice a green, wandering line that seems to move more independently and freely. Every person carries a kind of territory within them, which is made up of our experiences, our knowledge and our dreams. A very personal map, created over a long time as the product of a journey that is not yet complete. The creation of a possible world and the freedom to give up one's own certainties in order to embrace something new is reflected in this case by the interplay between the balance of forms and the spontaneity of free gesture.

Tide

The work consists of four canvases, leaning against the wall and so becoming objects themenselves in the exhibition space. There seems to be one movement uniting them, but each canvas could also stand on its own. We witness a structure that was created by scraped off paint layers, with a spatula or a similar tool and experience a physical act, rather than the depiction of a recognizable landscape. Thinking about different materials, like bronze or metal in general, weight, or returning to the work's name (the sea). We are reminded of the gray reflections created in the water by the play of the sunlight. The sound of the waves, the sound of water and the stones which are shifted back and forth by the tide. Like mentioned before every movement, every decision necessarily leaves its traces, shown here with the honest nakedness of a drawing and directing attention to the act of perception itself.