Galerie Filser & Gräf

Christa Filser's composition of the pictorial space lies in the design of different elements made of colored and natural layers of paper. It is understood as a consistent further development of the arrangement of vertical, representational pictorial content towards abstraction, which draws its narrative power from the horizontal order of cognitive perception and classification. Christa Filser demonstrates how deconstruction suddenly develops a creative potential and how chaos suddenly gives rise to a temporary order, a balance from which new worlds, horizons and realities are born.

 

Sebastian Herzau is always on the lookout for new challenges in classical painting techniques. He mainly devotes himself to the traditional genres of portraits and still lifes, which he translates into his own artistic signature. He creates illusions in the sense of trompe-l'œil painting and ambiguous pictorial worlds that reveal his experimental curiosity. He often gives them a special touch of "Herzau humor" that makes the viewer smile.
The artist has also been working on his series of works "tgb. the great below" for years. It is important to him to stimulate the process of perception and possibly to explore or create a voyeuristic, mysterious feeling. What is hidden behind it? What is real and illusion?
The fluorescent paint not only serves as an eye-catching signal color, but the viewer is even encouraged by a small black light flashlight to interact with the portrait and make the color glow in the dark, creating another level of perception

It is the work with space that appeals to the artist Richard Schur. In his paintings, he composes lines, surfaces and textures in a constructive yet highly poetic way. He himself says of his work:

"I paint the sound of color. Like a composer, I make the light of the colors resonate. I appreciate it when complex things sound light. I look for timeliness and timelessness: pictures that seem new and familiar at the same time. Independent pictorial worlds that reflect the present, yet are joyfully removed from everyday life.

For me, abstraction is a place of personal and collective memories. My visual language is a timeless, cosmopolitan form of expression. For me, abstraction means openness of mind, allowing things to happen and opening doors.
I am a poet, a composer and a son of old masters. I am interested in the emotional directness of expressionism, the clarity of hard-edge and the precision of Renaissance painters. In a long, intuitive and systematic process, I reflect on the significance of every single placement, every brushstroke: every detail has its meaning and its place in the whole.

Each of my paintings is the result of a variety of impulses: memories of beauty, of sounds and moods, of architecture and landscape. They are pictures of my individual imagination as a painter, but at the same time I am part of a social organism - as we all are. In this sense, my paintings are also metaphors: "social entities" translated into color, form and structure.

There is nothing superfluous in Tobias Stutz's works: a few lines and surfaces create an image that is structured by clear horizontal and vertical elements and occasionally interrupted by diagonal lines. Although his paintings appear three-dimensional, the world they depict seems to project into our own. Access to the architecture he depicts is not through doors, but through windows, which act as a kind of window into the soul of the respective building. The diversity of Bauhaus architectural styles is thus individualized, and we view them as if they represented feelings generated by the architecture for its viewers or inhabitants. The person for whom these buildings were created is not physically present in the artist's works. Nothing distracts from our view of the building, which is nevertheless indirectly filled with life: its absence is at the same time a presence, since we are looking at its home. The architectures depicted by Tobias Stutz are reflections of his life, inhabited living worlds. (Dr. Andrea Lechner, art historian & curator)