June at the Purse Building:
Gallery Roesch, Germany presents:
Alma Tischler

The Necessary Fabrication of Reality

on the paintings of Alma Tischler
 babysnakes painting
Wirklich-the German word for real does not keep silent about its making. It evokes work (werken) as well as miracles (Wunder wirken), kneading a dough as well as weaving a cloth. Reality (Wirklichkeit) is fabrication. It has been said that it is a lack of the lack which makes the real. Yet the forgetting of fabrication can only be the effect of a ceaseless effort. Reality, that is the lover when he is asleep. Reality, no less than the work, differs from sun, wind and rain, from the simply given, as much as a clockwork or the effects of poison. The masterpiece has rather more in common with a bread than with the sun. An image is always fabricated, or in other words, reality is a painting. And the ground of painting is a fabric. The ground is always something fabricated.
Baby Snakes

150cm x 100cm
acrylic on canvas
babysnakes2 painting Be it the support of a painting or the screen for luminous images, in German, other than in English or in French, there is one word for it: Leinwand. Canvas. A cloth of the most simple joining of warp and weft.Ground and support are fabricated, and the fabricated is always a piece. When painting paints a fabric, what had been silent becomes loud. Now the ground works as form and light and appears to support itself. Appearance and ground change places, alternate and return, over and under, like warp and weft. Something begins to dance before the eyes. Painting turns its back on the work, as it has been, and encounters the reality of fabrication.
Baby Snakes II

60cm x 40cm
acrylic on canvas
June 3 - 24, 1998
Opening Reception
Wednesday, June 3rd, 7-9 PM

Claudia Wegener
London, May 1998

 

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