wächter Painting

Spiritual Intoxication The color vision from Adalbert Gans "žAll invisible things adhere to the visible, the audible to the inaudible, the tactile to the nontactile. And perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable. >Novalis< Adalbert Gans is able to develop the idea of painting as object and to destill a visual language of pure form. If you want to give him a position inside art movement than abstract art. Nevertheless the art industry isn't his home nor their oral culture; but rather he remove from the sphere of this influence. He is completely at home in the subculture, wandering between countries like Austria, Spain, Belgium and Germany. Adalbert Gans has a lot of friends. The place don't decide the issue there are the people living together. The spiritual in art is sought and recognized in human behavior. And so in the art world he feel very grateful in the tradition to Blinki Palermo and Jackson Pollock. He's wandering through the legendary no man's land. Belonging neither here nor there, he moves with somnambular selfconfidence along the precarious line between them - a tightrope walker. In this way, he shows everything and nothing. He paints and builts torrents of energy which trigger "ž a nervous concussion that is felt in the cerebellum" - and this, according to Baudelaire, is the quality of all "žsublime thoughts." Like the Minimalists he's working in series, one of which could have as many as five to eight parts and include ten or twelve independent paintings or drawings. But while his work appears to be rigid he remains sensual. His work transmits a poetic essence and a deep vitality. Colors, geometrical forms and light are the tools with them he's working, transforming into objects, drawings and paintings. Mostly in the beginning his paintings being made on the floor or coming during a working process from the wall there. With pipettes, brushes and ink rollers he apply paint, next Stepp removing and applying again. The painting are spread with colored latex so much so that the painting is totally black; for further processing work out the color from darkness. During this process there get multiple coatings on top of each other. The finished painting is composed of color fields respectively "žcolor sounds" which in the beginning of the process are not dreamed up or imaginabled. Timbres are worked out of the darkness in which lines are the dominating forms.