The tendency to simplicity also includes a reflection on two-dimensionality. Formal overlapping as was often seen at the beginning of the 90s recedes and no longer appears in 1995. It is a distinct spatiality and its interpretation that are avoided above all. Instead, it is replaced by a virtual spatiality that arises alone from color. Because the color event should be in the foreground and not the formal event. The tendency to simplicity appears as a long-term trend. This comprises both future and past picture solutions. The single picture is an individual poetic decision and not a decision in favor of progress. Progress as a trend has its own dynamic and is not conscious as the pictures develop. Only with the distance of time is the trend readable.
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Privatbesitz
Köln
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 60 cm
Städtische Galerie
Kulturspeicher
Würzburg