TRANSPARENT Painting

TRANSPARENT With gesture and colour, the primal elements of painting, Ecker creates non-representational pictures characterised by the dissolution of the traditional principle of form. In his informal art, colour thus advances to become the actual object of painting. Therefore, the two-dimensional surface of the two-dimensional picture carrier should actually be emphasized, but Ecker's pictures generate their own form of spatiality. Here, space is not created by illusionist means, but rather the pictorial space is created from the overlapping of the individual colour surfaces, as well as the many layers of colour superimposed on top of each other, which emerge in relief. In Ecker's work one can roughly distinguish two approaches. On the one hand, the powerfully expressive canvases worked with brush and spatula strokes, which range from almost monochrome to contrasting colours; in the work Transparent even overlaid by a web of colour spurts and spots. The drama of this large-scale composition in particular, with its wild orgy of colour and unleashed brushstrokes, awakens in its powerful expressiveness associations that oscillate between works by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The second group of works picks up on the technique of paint pouring by a Morris Louis, but invents its own, much more complex structure of order, which Ecker partly planned in advance. Countless parallel flows of paint run down the canvas, but are repeatedly distracted from their predictable, controlled progression by the projections of the layer below. The individual colour fountains can be combined into streams and thus become one big river, the bark of a tree trunk or solidified lava flows of memory. Flowing, vibrating and dynamic-relief colour landscapes allow ideas beyond the visible to be experienced aesthetically. The immediacy of the colour material creates a physical force that directly addresses the senses. Together with the energy of the creative act, the curiosity, openness, independence and sensitivity of the artist is transferred to the viewer. Framing on request.