Horizon – Andreas Felger Kulturstiftung

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HORIZON

Whether by the sea, in the mountains or in the fields – anyone who looks towards the horizon of a landscape senses the vastness of the universe. Horizontal lines determine the field of vision, but the power of distance carries the viewer imaginarily beyond that line that marks the transition from earth to sky. It is not without reason that the concept of the geographical horizon is at the same time a metaphor for our imagination and our wealth of knowledge.

Horizons play an important role in Andreas Felger’s painting. They bear witness to the intensive formal-motif involvement with the landscape, which finds its way into his art in countless plein air studies. Again and again it is about the interplay of lines and forces, horizontal-vertical, near-far, light-dark. Figurative elements dissolve into abstraction, the landscape mutates into a patchwork of geometric surfaces or a fabric of coloured stripes.

At the same time, Felger’s horizon paintings also aim at what lies beyond the horizon. They invite questions: Can an artistic representation approach creation? Is the vastness of the world graspable, and how much more immeasurable still is the dimension of the sky? Can the boundary be defined at all? “To believe is to look through the horizon”, says an African proverb.

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