WALLPAPER "FAITH HOPE LOVE" 1999 to spring 2000 4 - Limited Edition of 8 Print

WALLPAPER "FAITH HOPE LOVE" 1999 to spring 2000 Most of the time Johann Nußbächer finds the titles of his pictures or Retrospective graphic series. As an extension of the painting act into the poetic verbal, as crossing the borders of the media. These titles are never mere descriptions of the image content, but they give the viewer a key, whose conceptual lock he can find in himself. It was different with the folder "Faith, Hope, Love - Gär- ten of unreasonableness. ”This was where Nussbächer floated from the beginning a topic, a symbolic atmosphere that he They grow, mature. The gardener must refine, he must (how with the salad). That's how the ideas ripen in my head. " These sentences could have come from Nussbächer. Because besides a parable for the creative process, this is Folder also a crop from thirty year old prints Experience, before deciding on the final colors, stack mountains of pressure. “The technology,” he says, “is just one Vehicle for transporting the idea of ​​the picture. ”Thus beyond reason, without any sales security. Therefore, it is unreasonable in the economic sense. " The artist as a counterpart to practical reason - many The fate of artists attests to this. But by keeping the artist from personal profit thinking nibbles - and often jeopardizes his material existence - he creates in and through his work a refuge of thinking, Freedom of feeling and behavior, according to Kant “uninteresting Good pleasure. " broken beauty reflected. It is the crashes and depths from which one can grow out to a yes to life. " Between autumn 1999 and spring 2000 the twelve etchings, like all of Nussbach's graphics, were produced in such a small number that they could almost be called unique. The shapes grew against the color. The few black and white sheets strike the whole range of technical refinements. Deep black areas correspond to “For now, BELIEVE, HOPE, LOVE, these three remain; but the greatest among them is love. "the etchings not illustrated, but in the truest sense of the word. It should initially be called “Gardens of Unreason”. gardens are truly not a new topic in the visual arts. from "Little Garden of Paradise" to the "Gardens of Earthly Delights" from Hiero- nymus Bosch, from the garden pictures Monets, Noldes and Klaus Fußmanns is the garden eye joy and symbol of the harmonious interaction of culture and nature, of nursing care up to unruly wild growth. But the garden is not just an occasion for the oh so popular Floral motif. Monet, Nolde and especially Miro saw in the Garden art an equivalent to creative work. Miro wrote: "I work like a gardener. Things wrap slowly. I don't have my formal language on discovered once. It has - yes, actually without my intervention - slowly developed. Things go their natural course. He handles the diverse artistic means of etching with sleepwalking security and can fall back on an almost inexhaustible reservoir of technical possibilities (and rendered impossible). His sovereignty even goes so far that at the end of a working process he can no longer precisely describe the individual stages of image creation. Now you know all kinds of gardens, a "hortus conclusus" of unreasonableness is probably the most clever Garden experts have not yet come across. Developed here Nussbächer continued his view of art. He says: "Everyone Normal people first secure themselves in their actions what that brings him. Ultimately, artist work is not calculable. Because mostly the artist doesn't work on secured terrain, without net and double bottom and Considering the spiritual space that this graphic portfolio enters, the words "Faith, Hope, Love" from Corinthians 1.13 are understandable. Because this cycle is nothing short of a creed on the artistic profession, indeed on life itself. Nussbächer was not looking for it. Rather, the lines from the New Testament found him when he was in severe crisis at the window of his studio. The set of colors, shapes and form arrangements suddenly appeared in it: “Blue-violet nights, pale, ailing yellow-green in the morning ”(Nußbächer). "Belief, hope, love, these terms were like an invitation commanded, a hold, a mental rope with which I get out of the Pull out swamp of confusion itself. A spiritual one Force field whose energy flowed through me until it shone Sparkled outside and on the printed images in nervous balls of lines. Vegetative blooms and fades in the shade. Different light levels chant the colors in the lively process of dawning and fading.Dr. Eva-Suzanne Bayer If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me (e-mail: ) Price: 4,500.- in total Single: 740.-