What does a picture need,

what can a line do

Hermann Rudorf

Pictures are signs for other things. Products of the imagination. Nevertheless, they have cognitive value and are a new way of looking at the world.

If visual language and pictorial form trigger a resonance in us, they transcend our thoughts and feelings and lift us above everyday life, allowing us to be one with the world for a moment. For what is revealed in the resonance is the beauty and truth of a reality that has been carved out of the realm of possibility.

Creating a painting is an act of creation, an expression of ideas and feelings. Whether black and white/colour, flat/deep, linear/gestural or open/closed, Hermann Rudorf explores the field of the visible, such as landscapes, everyday objects or even works from the history of art.

His remakes are new views and evaluations, interpretations of works of art. In the diversity of views and new value judgements, Hermann Rudorf shows astonishing things: conciseness and reduction that reveal the essence of the works with great clarity.

Humans can have two capacities for gaining insights: on the one hand, an individual talent, and on the other, the perception of experiences inscribed in the body, which are made, processed and passed on to subsequent generations from single-celled organisms through all the branches of evolution. The constant growth of knowledge and skills, deeply anchored in the body, together with individual talent, becomes a sense that also has a rational structure through evolutionary experience.

The dialogue with Hermann Rudorf's works arises quickly. Probably because his painting process itself is a dialogue with the work in progress. In order to track down its inner order and follow it appropriately, he frees his mind from concepts and opens himself up to intuition, following the signs and traces on the canvas. His artistic work thus resembles an exploration of the possibilities of a lasting pictorial language and pictorial forms with universal validity.

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