Dirk Skreber
Tesa-Moll Seele
Foam and tape on wood
330 x 350cm |
Skreber's abstract paintings incorporate all the unrest of
his pictorial work, but reduce the uneasy tension to a purely
formal level. In Seele, Skreber exploits the rough material
of the board, exposing the essence of the picture plane, nails
and all, as a purely constructed surface. His rigid painted
and taped lines subvert the stability of the grid like composition,
creating an optical effect of corrugated disorientation.
Carving through his built-up veneer, Skreber subliminally
reveals a kissing couple, a provocative image estranged from
emotive connotation. Seele blurs the boundaries between sculpture
and painting, flatness and perceived space. It is less a painting
than a falsified architectural form. |