| Richard
Peter Schmid "Linzer Klangwolke" – paintings |
|||||||||
| 16 May to 16 June 2002 | |||||||||
|
Linzer Klangwolke V Raumsituation [enlarge picture] View of the Exhibition Homepage |
||||||||
| Richard Peter Schmid has grouped six small canvasses
together in ensembles filled with tension and united with the claim of
reflecting on painting with the greatest possible autonomy. Schmid prepared
eight of these spatial installations for his exhibition in the Neue Galerie
of the City of Linz, placing the paintings as a pendant in the context
of the "Linzer Klangwolke" music and media event of the city,
in the sense of a cyclical coherency. The artist is practising a procedure
here that was evoked by longer term encounters with or residence in cities
which attract his cultural interest (for example in Hamburg, Krakow and
Leipzig). His subtle, many-layered painting avoids any narrative or illusionist intentions. It refers instead to a deliberately directed structure of tension, spatially activating the walls that serve as carriers for the work to the extent that the relatively small canvasses show clearly perceptible differentiations in depth, the tactile moment of which stresses their character as objects. Schmid’s lyrically expressive painting, here and there approaching the phenomenon of the monochromatic without, however, using it as a consistent technique, develops a rich canon of relationships and tensions. These small panel-like works demonstrate great resolution and are painted with much sensibility, while on the other hand leaving a great deal open and by this means appealing to the readiness of the observer to follow where they lead, to the capacity for combination and readiness for dialogue. The painter takes up a highly personal and to a certain extent holistic stance on the basis of an emotionality that is underpinned by knowledge. The consistency that he applies in accordance with his intention and pictorial method, is the guarantee of a route far from any attempt to curry favour with the spirit of the times and of fashion. |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||