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Introduction

 

Konrad Oberhuber


[...]"In the new paintings, the figure is much more integrated into space, whether it is represented fully or only half length. The contours now merge less with the ground and establish firmer borders. The bodies themselves are more strongly differentiated in the light thus obtaining greater plasticity. The forms no longer fill the picture plane to the same degree, but become more isolated within their surroundings. In this way, they withdraw more into themselves, and one feels them less as people who speak to the viewer with the feelings represented than as beings that rest in themselves and with whose essentially human isolation and loneliness one can empathize. They can also share the space with objects and animals that assume an equal presence with them. Even chairs and vessels can become sole objects of a painting and can inform the viewer about their function and importance through their individual forms. These pictures demand a more active and intuitive approach through which the inner content of these human beings or things is being revealed."
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Konrad Oberhuber from Introduction, October 1999


 

 

 


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