‘It is more like a labyrinth’
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...Says German artist Michael Kunze about his modernist approach to art as reflected in his latest exhibition
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New media was growing while Michael Kunze was studying
art, and his intensified interest in what was becoming a blind spot,
made people look at him as if he was uneducated. “Such a stupid
monotheistic view raises the spirit of opposition. So it got clearer and
clearer that in painting would be my interest. And time always
continues with this kind of dialectics: Where you have the blind spot
you also have the hot spot,” he says.
Michael’s paintings, he says, have an anachronistic quality, ideally suited to investigating the hidden face of modernism, which is highlighted in his latest exhibition Tick, of international contemporary art on display in the city from Friday. The name is inspired by the moment — sound of the clock, going further one second to the next second — a minimalistic bridge between these two opposing visions of (existential and historical) time. He explains, “I like to mostly refer to quite complicated cultural-historical mind-crossings and tricky involvements of ideas that work in our world.” Michael uses sun shades, empty swimming pools, sparse, fantasy and ruin landscapes reminiscent of classical antiquity, with a stage-like theatricality in his work. His is a painting style reminiscent of old masters, with echoes of large historical and world panoramas, coupled with a repertory of motifs in an aesthetic manner. Michael Kunze’s paintings are filled with literary, philosophic, art historical and architectural reflections which he transfers into cryptic, irrational appearing scenes, architectural constructs or landscapes. Michael says. “In this style, lies all the motifs and historical references that present another image of the world other than the mainstream modernity we are accustomed to.” varsha.naik@dnaindia.net |
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Published Date: Dec 11, 2012
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