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Claus Friede talks with Jens Rausch about one of his art works
at the exhibition 'Ultramarin' by collective HEUTE,- August 23rd - 26th '13, Hinterconti, Hamburg
The original idea is
to pick up the intangible
Ultramarine...
the one which cannot be grasped,
it's in the nature,
one can constantly see it,
it's volatile
it cannot be touched;
and I wanted to bring it to the canvas,
in the sense of a color pigment,
which would return through the
canvas – it's formed
onto the retina –
thus it's actually obtained
...and at the same time it vanishes again,
because it's a perpetual coming
and going in the nature.
– There's yet a second layer though,
and this one is interesting.
There's a little moment,
in which there's a before and an after;
there is the situation of this...
light phenomenom before,
and once afterwards, because
the light phenomenon is gone after 5 minutes;
Yet you have this second layer,
namely, the feier,
that's also a process,
and you added it, both...
real and artificial,
you break out the common and...
complement it through an artistic act,
that is the interesting part.
The one is the picture – the
image which is suggested
as the moment of a light phenomenon
in the clouds –
and the other one is:
the traces of the blaze,
so, to go, once again, purely with something...
...actually wrecking...
that's exactly a process, although
it forms itself on another layer,
which means, that the viewer should
grapple with both layers,
and not only with the one which is seen
– and hence to think about the before and the after –
but also, he should read along the before
and the after of these traces of blaze,
with this, you dig out...
old traditional pictorial...
capabilities...
and routines,
by atacking...
...questioning.
An artistic added value.
– That's well said,
I don't have the words
to be able to express it precisely so.
– It's just my attempt,
my approach.
– But it's correct,
that's exactly the intention,
but I cannot convey it at all so precisely,
since I have no words...