CHRISTOPH KERN

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First I had to work out the concepts for the paintings. On the basis of rather accidentally produced and spontaneous image variations gradually active tendencies developed which needed affirmation or denial and waited to be kept or destroyed. In this way I devised an abundance of schemes which could be mixed together, changed and tested until promising image sequences developed from them. I found it very remarkable that almost any composition could come to a sufficiently peculiar image constellation to be at least temporarily considered. >>

In painting, usually actual colors have to be applied to rectangular surfaces side by side or one layer over the other. The picture’s meanings depend on the method and technique into which this is done. Nothing else. The knowledge about this symbolizes a wide range of mind’s ability. My artistic interest now can be put as this: “How does painting work?”

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