Horizons

With this current series, I have developed an interest in depicting emotion through objects and finding a grip on the relationship that colors as tangible objects can acquire. My emphasis with an axis – positioning the viewer within space – has brought my practice into confrontation with the challenge, to somehow “esculpt” vision with color.

I consider myself a painter. However, the arrangement of space within any confined boundaries is the backbone of my work and this, many might understand more easily in relation to sculpture or drawing. For here, instead of “the image”, it is the size and extension of the canvas, the colors and the hues that collaborate in the work’s harmonization. Setting the viewer upon the center of this axis, constructing the inter-relation of work–spectator, I can break a scheme of horizon, land or sky, thus opening the viewer to the void in which they might acquire a sort of “associative thought” and get closer to experience.

“If you point at the sky most people will see your finger”

Horizons are the doors of our daily empirical experience, an evaluation of how we relate to our perception of space, an interlocking of light and shape connected to our eye. They perform in union to give the observer a “direct knowledge of the world unknown to his reason,” (Nietzsche) that of the relations between our tangible and intangible surroundings.

Our obligation in any current artistic practice is to surpass the object as art and, in doing so, to affirm the position of the work itself as “an experience”. Only in this way can things be perceived in the present moment and their definition allowed to be constantly redefined by each successive viewer.

Text by Andres Hessinger