“The Grid”
"The Grid" was created in January 2008 with "Painter"
(Metacreations)
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 56x76 cm, Picture: 44x66 cm Copies: 10, numbered and signed, and 2 artist's copies (I-II) Price: 600.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
Quite different from what was the case with “Living Colors,” this
image shows right away how it was done, explicitly constructed as the
multilayered visualization of a complex construction, that is, a cut
out part of it showing a detailed crisp foreground from which the
view slides into a vague depth. This blurs any judgment of the whole
structure that conveys a somehow metallic and essentially technical
tube construction or something organic with embryonic features or
both at the same time and if both, which is which remains a riddle
that cannot be solved. This feeds a tension enhanced by color: Dark,
toneless colors combined with light, but saturated “fiery” tones as
well as delicate pastel tones, all are in intense contrast in the
foreground. But all are also moderated by the layering of each one,
showing every color in different brightness through slight shifting
of the layers. This is complimented by the fact that the color planes
are both separated by the tube grid and, through the layering as
well, cross all borders. To me, such an image is kind of an
“antithesis” to those wide format digital appetizers, functioning
like thinking “great, swallow and forget them”. It tastes good to me,
this image, but always in a different way.