While painting, I create a dialogue between the canvas and me. Through alleged mistakes and decisions that are not reversible, I find unique solutions, compositions, and forms. This approach emphasizes the immediacy of painting. Working in different layers allows me to partly reveal the process. Opposed to the gestural brushstrokes stand pseudo-realistic elements, like the spherical shape in Sagarmatha dividing the canvas vertically. The thin surface layer, giving rise to negative form elements,  breaks open to reveal a different narrative hidden in the depth of the painting. 

sagarmatha

1. Poly, 200 x 140 cm, oil on canvas 
Poly opens up a space that is defined by the search and discovery of abstract shapes and objects. The tension amid the components is formed by their relationship with each other and the composition.  Abstract places are evoked without following a feasible concept of space and perspective. Organic form elements and thinly layered surfaces are contrasted against straight lines and smooth, opaque surfaces. Poly accommodates its very own chronicle by depicting moments of assumption driven by the longing to find recognizability. The cryptic signs are an allusion to perception regarding semiotic systems as one instinctively assumes a significance or meaning lies within sign- like depictions. 

2. Sagarmatha, 140 x 105 cm, oil on canvas 
While painting, I create a dialogue between the canvas and me. Through alleged mistakes and decisions that are not reversible, I find unique solutions, compositions, and forms. This approach emphasizes the immediacy of painting. Working in different layers allows me to partly reveal the process. Opposed to the gestural brushstrokes stand pseudo-realistic elements, like the spherical shape in Sagarmatha dividing the canvas vertically. The thin surface layer, giving rise to negative form elements,  breaks open to reveal a different narrative hidden in the depth of the painting. 

3.  y2k, 100 x 75 cm, oil on canvas 
y2k depicts a sensualization of the complexity of digital communication, networks, and the penetration of analog and digital worlds. Form language and color palette contain subtle leads to internet culture, new technologies, and artificial intelligence. The dense network of angular lines and surfaces get perforated by organic plant-like shapes. Two fragile wave-shaped lines are crossing the canvas horizontally revealing the very first otherwise hidden layer of the canvas, playing with the thickness of the paint application.

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Kathi Schulz