PORTFOLIO CUTTING THE EDGE
The collage series CUTTING THE EDGE marks the end of the painterly trilogy A NEW NOW. The trilogy began in 2017 during an extended stay in the USA. I understand CUTTING THE EDGE quite literally. Paintings and sketches that lack inner balance and dynamic are cut. They are then reassembled into collages on a multicolored or monochrome background. It is about the destruction of the old to find a new beginning.
On one hand, the collage technique allows to explore color, texture and spatiality from a new perspective. On the other hand, CUTTING THE EDGE is synonymous with the transformative forces in the cycle of becoming, existing and passing. The collages are dialogues with a magical, dreamlike landscape. They reference special places in the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, and the Austrian Alps. These places deeply moved me. The compositions and motifs of the collage play with balance and dynamics. They form a future inner landscape with new possibilities for experience (new territory).
…to be continued…
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