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Dieter List

Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Even as a young boy, the Hamburg-born List was fascinated by the play of light and shadow, just as h...

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Dieter List

Joined In 2022

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About the artist

Dieter List

Joined In 2022

(1 Follower)

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Even as a young boy, the Hamburg-born List was fascinated by the play of light and shadow, just as his uncle, the famous photographer Herbert List, had put it on paper. When he turned – late – to art, he was consequently looking for a material that would open up such a play of light and discovered the unusual material of plaster bandages.
The artist has given plaster-soaked fabric ribbons a completely new shape. In long paths, arched with faults, gorges, abysses and moraines, Dieter List has created a world of experience with this material that is reminiscent of magnificent landscapes which, depending on the incidence of light and shade, create something new.
But nothing is what it seems to be.
The strong first impression when part viewed actually reveals only a small
of the artwork. What seems absolute
is is in reality relative. The objects of Dieter List, his plaster reliefs, have to be walked around, circled, as only then the unecpected landscapes in their colour variations can be discovered. These expressive and intense forms of plaster give new and different colour experiences depending on the position oft he viewer. Thus the artworks are perfected only in the mind oft he viewer. He calls this technique „ThreeViews“ (...

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