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“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.