Visitation (Rueckkehr), Edition 1/10 Painting

The work is inspired by the artist’s German poem Rűckkehr whose text and English translation is found at http://www.ottolaske.com/documents/German-Complete.pdf. Outwardly appearing as a stylized human face, it renders the artists adolescent experience of his father’s return from the Russian Gulag after WWII in which individuals did not count. The work makes visible that, rather than being a mere ‘return’ (Rűckkehr), the father’s re-appearance was experienced as a visitation from another world, perhaps the underworld, of which the young son had no understanding. The work is composed of two dimensions of like color, one serving as background, the other as foreground, coalescing into an abstract face looking sideways. In the foreground, situated in the curvy enclosure, several black and colored windows open to the boy, all of them both opaque and threatening. The two upward pointing colored strokes emerging from bottom left express the boy’s timid and incomplete embrace of the returning father not seen for years. The image articulates the boy’s request that the visitor ‘overcome me with streaming love’, to compensate for the weak embrace he was able at first to muster. The work is printed on Hot Press Fine Art Smooth Bright White paper (an acid free, 100% cotton rag media with a bright textured finish, yielding an extremely high color gamut and black density). It is signed and numbered by the artist, accompanied by a CoA, and shipped without hanging hardware, in a very sturdy tube protected against folding and puncture.

Painting:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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