Grashalm

Paul Erdmann

Mann mit Wolken
Painting: Paul Erdmann, Mann mit Wolken, 2020, Öl auf Faserplatte, 41 × 36 cm

Grashalm

Thinking about your paintings—its unresolved uncertainties—gives me the feeling that I have rooms inside my head. So, I could say that if I am a world, your paintings engender nascent spaces within me. The more I explore, the more focused and detailed these spaces become ... They evolve.

Yesterday, at dusk, I was lured, then sucked in, by a juncture of field and copse. I’ve seen that sort of seam in nearly all of your paintings.

This morning the sky was light gray. I looked for the line—the weld. And, as the field was curved, I thought of an eyeball.

An eyeball: the secret horizon in an eyeball. It’s as if you were to ask from within: what is standing and balancing—momentarily or as long as possible—on my eyeball? And what is above the eyeball’s horizon? What is below? Does it have a ground and something that is above ground? And is the ground nameable because of the figure or the building that is standing on—or floating above—that eyeball’s surface? And yet, can anything stand on an eyeball?

Thinking about your paintings, I’m free to see the black line between the field and the trees.

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Paul Erdmann

Born in Wrocław, Poland in 1970. Emigrated to West Germany in 1989.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1995 to 2002 and at the HKU University of Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 2010 emigrated to Costa Rica. Lives and works in Berlin, Wrocław and Middle America.

Hartmut Dorgerloh über den Künstler:

Die Motive meines Bildes nichts, sein Wesen alles,Ein Bild für sich, den andern nicht verwandt, dem Intellekt nicht verschlossen, –Du aber, unausgesprochenes Geheimnis, wirst jedes Bilddurchblicken.        
(frei nach Walt Whitman für Paul)

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