Irmgard, und Marlene in der straßenbahn, Rosenthaler Platz Print

Fishinberlin In 2006 I visited the Berggruen Collection in Berlin, The beauty of Matisse's paper cut-outs took my breath away. The simple beauty of form and function and the graphic power of these collages are one of a kind. But what actually inspired me for my own work was, that he painted the pieces of paper himself. At that point of my life, I was working with the form of collage for ages. Since I was a boy of 4 or 5 years old, I would sit sometimes for several hours a day next to the pond near our house, drifting into another reality by imagining life underwater. Later, as an artist, I started working on bringing this view above ground. After hundreds of approaches I was most satisfied by using the technique of collage. So I was working on refining my collage work. But before actually seeing the original collage works of Matisse, it never occured to me to self paint the colour before the cutting work. So after previously using pre-printed coloured paper, the change to self painting the paper presented me a whole new world of colour and vision by giving me any colour and shade I wished. Finally I had the ability to achieve the subtle one directional brush strokes, aiding this special underwater effect I carried in my mind for over 40 years! You can see the result on my fishinberlin collages. They have a very intense graphical depth that emerges from the combination of colours, and the cut-outs. The setting of the 'fish in Berlin' series, is on the one hand a very personal one, while on the other hand, a reflection of a city, where one can be themselves, and others be who they are. If you want to see, how the collages are done, please visit fishinberlin.wordpress.com.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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