untitled, 2020 Painting

This painting has been inspired by Micha Kuball's exhibition 'res.o.nant', a light and sound installation at the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2018. There was a room with a falling, periodic light spot which looked to the artist like a sun or moon falling down. Thereby, she remembered the poem of the German-speaking Jewish poet Rose Ausländer "Die Sonne fällt". The canvas shows now a blue, glowing flame as a minimalistic, oval-longish shape on a black background. The subject of the painting is light and form, open and closed, color and black as noncolor. The basis of this silent artwork is an underexposed photograph from Kuball's exhibition. The artist took it in the Jewish museum space with " the sun or moon falling down". Looking at the photograph the blue shape reminded the artist first of a candle light, suddenly as well of the flame of an old gas stove. Then she startled. Light is the source of life, heat, and orientation, in the Old Testament and the Gospel of John also God. Depending on the light the longish oval on the canvas is seen as a simple ellipse or as a symbolic flame, thus, as a well-defined, closed form or an open shape which is invaded by the black paint. Or does a blue light start to enlighten the dark black? Does the flame start to glow or is it fading light? Is it a death or a procreation or both? Is it a painted metaphor of the Holocaust, painted Holocaust poetry of Rose Ausländer ("Mit giftblauem Feuer", With Poison-Blue Fire)? Is the subject of the artwork religious or not? Not only, but the motif is for sure also an abstract memorial candle light, interreligious, reflection, a light in the dark. Originally, the artist had intended to create the artwork, the flame as a big, long, upright canvas so that people could place themselves as candle under the glowing flame. This first idea focusing on lives, humans, and life cycle might be realized in future. The artwork is signed and dated.