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Landscapes
Klaus Zolondowski is a contempary artist from Berlin who deals with scenery and painting in the farthest sense. His partly large-size posters are not really, real pictures of our world, but abstract ideal pictures of ostensible, thougt up sceneries.
Old wood, chipboard and handboards from the bulky refuse serve as a picture bearer. Sometimes left natural, but also painted monochrome or with subjekt matter, Zolondowski then covers them with lines. In the beginning the artist painted these lines above the whole image plane.
With time he progressed to forming these lines from glued on plant stalks or thin wood
or directly scratching them into the picture bearer. The collection of these physical materials has also become an important part of his artistic work.
Like currents, his lines flow majestically and now and again very vehemently about the picture, condensing to form highly energetic fields. While observing these fields of force the eye jumps between lines and background: the denser the line pattern is, all the more the original scenery representation resolves, the lines start to oscillate and the viewer sees, from the line diagram, a new, shimmering landscape of great transcendency and unusual aesthetic.
Zolondowski's works radiate a great strength and meditative calm while at the same time an irritating restlessness. This impression and the natural plasticity of his works are unfortunately only very insufficiently reproduced by photographic pictures - they are a piece of reality in the digital age.
Elisabeth Hassel, Berlin 2006
More texts for downloading (only in german):
Klaus Zolondowski - Sammeln
from the catalog "Strömungen", Berlin 2005
Klaus Zolondowski - Das Rote Haus
from the catalog "Virtuelle Landschaften", Berlin 2006
Annette Jahnhorst - Interview with Klaus Zolondowski,
Berlin, 2008 |
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