"untitled" Painting

Abstract painter living in Berlin.

The object of my non-representational work is developing complexly structured pictorial spaces. Every painting starts from a blank canvas; there is no preconceived idea, concept or strategy and there are no titles for the finished paintings. The starting point is the first colour patch, point or line, to which I then react with corresponding or contrasting patches, lines or points.

In painting I try to find that moment, in which openness and the definitive are balanced. Each and every single element of the picture should interact with all of the others. I try to set focal points or emphases, but these should never overpower the equilibrium of ambiguity. The painting is finished, if and when it resists an immediate comprehension, but offers at least one or a few different ways of perception or interpretation. For me it is interesting to note how I myself react to the picture’s visual structures; somehow on a physical level, like intuition, and it’s interesting to notice how paintings sometimes ‘work’ and sometimes don’t.

The finished picture is a kind of chronicle of its own creation – an ongoing process which continues in the next painting, with the experience gained during development of the previous one.

The pictorial elements do not depict anything specific but instead represent the concept of process.

The overreaching idea of my paintings is the question: how human beings perceive abstract images and how orientation in complex pictorial structures functions.