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In general my paintings are done with oilpaint on canvas. I have a habit to always have small papers (size A3) next to me on the floor or pinned to the wall when i paint. I use these to make quick notes with the brush that happens to be in my hand, when the paintingprocess evokes new ideas , when i want to experiment with different colors or different brushstrokes, or simply when i want to get rid of excess paint on the tip of the brush.

I keep adding touches here and there when inspiration calls for it , sometimes it takes days , month or even years if a next action happens on a such a paper. I sort out what seems to make sense as a base that could become eligible as "a small work". Finally i focus on what is there and turn with little work the "oil on paper" into a real painting. The other papers stay in the process and mature till they are acceptable for the final touches.

From 1993 till 1997 i made about 400 such small works. You can view a selection here, also the slideshow with the title INSCAPES

https://vimeo.com/324734942

INNER SPACE EXPANSION
a book proposal
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpt9eg6lv2j2vhc/inner%20space%20expansion%20buch.pdf?dl=0

if i would be an independent artcollector or museumscurator this book would be a catalog of the mayor works of my collection.

i enjoy the detection of new uplifting forms of expression, of new levels of virtuosity and new aesthetic flavors. this joy guides the selection process of the images of my virtual collection.

i grew up in the pre-digital age where only personal contacts, the visit of exhibitions and artfairs , browsing in art magazines, catalogs and books could lead to the discovery of emerging outstanding art that could satisfy the requirements of my personal taste.

i saw millions of artworks of dead and living artists on my yearly rounds through the halls of artfairs, but it happened only very seldom that i encountered paintings which i wanted to add to my imaginary collection of „true and timeless art“.

in the course of a few decades, exhibitions worldwide had focused increasingly on new hybrid media. weird spaceconsuming installations drove the art of painting off the stage alltogether. no space was left for detailed soulful imaginations projected with oldmasterly skills on canvas or panels.

only then, when the internet opened windows into the studios of artists from all over the planet, it became apparent that a multifacetted creative universe parallel to the official contemporary artscene had established itself online, providing public exposure not limited anymore by the tastes and commercial considerations of the art world.

i joined facebook in 2008. naturally many of my friends are visual artists.

almost all companions of my 55 year journey through the wilderness of contemporary art as a professional painter, have today a facebook page and it is very easy to share preferences and new discoveries.

in this way original and outstanding talents comes to my attention quite frequently. also art that had impressed me in the pre-digital age, but had faded out of my awareness, appears miraculously in postings of new friends.

the interplay of the inner worlds of my generation and the one before, with the creations of the younger emerging talents, presents a fascinating growing tapestry of insight into the human selfimage, expressed with traditional and digital means.

obviously we are living in a time where many boundaries in the spectrum of art are dissoving : beween the three distinct painting styles THE REALISTIC, THE PHANTASTIC, and THE ABSTRACT, between painting and sculpture, between the real and the virtual.

what wants to appear instead is a vision of the everexpanding space of creative freedom.

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list of artists included in this book:

1913 Fabrizio Clerici ( 1913 -1993 )

1919 Johfra (1919 - 1998 )

1930 Ernst Fuchs

1932 Franz Bayer

1932 Abdul Mati Klarwein (1932 – 2002)

1936 Robert Venosa (1936 - 2011)

1939 Isaac Abrams

1941 Erol Denec

1942 De Es

1945 Olga Spiegel

1946 Richard Rendl

1947 Hanna Kay

1952 Mark Henson

1953 Laurie Lipton

1954 Alexsandr Kosteckij (1954-2010)

1948 Friedrich Hechelmann

1950 Wolfgang Harms

1951 Shala Rose

1951 Robert Steven Connet

1952 Richard Marquand

1953 Bernard Dumaine

1953 Natalia Rudnizka

1953 Fitnat Katircioglu

1953 Alex Grey

1954 Philip Rubinov Jacobson

1954 Tuco Amalfi

1954 Wolfgang Widmoser

1956 Julie Heffernan

1956 Scott Facon

1958 Hermann Smorenburg

1960 Ivan Titor

1960 Steven Lombardi

1963 Andrew Gonzales

1963 Nad Wolinska

1967 Maura Holden

1967 Boris Indrikov

1968 Oleg Korolov

1968 Peter Gric

1969 Fulvio Di Piazza

1970 Yatoshi Sakamoto

1971 Dan Seagrave

1973 Kris Kuksi

1976 Ali Banisadr

1976 Michael Divine

1976 Eduardo Calzado

1977 Hiroyuki Saito

1977 Android Jones

1978 Amanda Sage

1979 Dennis Konstantin

1984 Adam Scott Miller

1988 Adam Psybe

many artists in this book are known as „phantastic realists“ or „visionary artists“ . this style offers figurative, narrative and symbolic content in mysterious or otherworldly settings. it rearranges the objects of real life in unreal magical or absurd ways. phantasy is the building site of heaven and hell and the playground of the dreamers.

the material of which a phantastic world is made of can look as natural and realistic as much as the skills of the painter allow it. or it can appear to be glassy, translucent, metallic, hot or cold, hard or soft.

it can melt and get out of shape till no recognizable object is left. even the last contoures can dissolve till the only thing that still appears to be real is the „illusory space“, the threedimesinal effect of the image in the viewers mind, made out of colors ,textures,light and darkness.

thus phantastic reality can turn into abstract reality made out of patterns and movements , spots and lines and colorvolumes.

some artists start as „phantastic realists“ but over the years turn „phantastic realistic abstracts“. maximal art is phantastic, realistic and abstract at the same time.