Franz Paul Gabriel Konrad

"It is the artist's mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. Which artist would not wish to dwell at the central organ of all motion in space-time (be it the brain or the heart of creation) from which all functions derive their life? In the womb of nature, in the primal ground of creation, where the secret key to all things lies hidden? Our beating heart drives us down, far down to the primal ground." (Paul Klee)

The world around us has become colorful, its information structures marked by vivid images. Whereas up until recently linear text was still used as our means of codification, nowadays surfaces are increasingly important (photos, TV screens, projection screens) for conveying information. As in an illiterate context, pictures are once again the official media. Pictures did not disappear with the invention of the printing press (they were only banished to the realm of illustration and representation), just as the written word will certainly not be replaced by images. Instead a dialectic approach to picture and text is called for: if one combines text with concepts, or pictures with imagination, the result is a more imaginative conception and a more conceptual imaginati...