{"id":17781,"date":"2024-11-22T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.af-kulturstiftung.de\/wordpress\/werk-des-quartals-04-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:32:12","slug":"work-of-the-quarter-04-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.af-kulturstiftung.de\/wordpress\/en\/work-of-the-quarter-04-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of the Quarter 04.2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andreas Felger, Untitled, 2006<\/div>
Watercolour on paper, 37,5 x 27,5 cm \u00a9 AFKS <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Untitled
\n2006
\nWatercolour on paper
\n37,5 x 27,5 cm<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div>
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How it hurts me so much!
\nMy heart is pounding in my body
\nand I have no peace;
\nfor I hear the sound of the trumpet,
\nthe noise of the battle;<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeremiah 4:19
\n(Luther Bible, revised version 1984)<\/p>\n

In the picture, as the result of the painting process, we see from the uppermost colour layer through to the paper as the picture carrier, but in a metaphorical sense from the broken darkness in the lower layers up to the uppermost layers, above which only brightness and luminosity prevail.<\/p>\n

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A key feature is the relationship between compression and dissolution, between darkening and brightening, which \u2013 depending on how you read the picture \u2013 takes effect from top to bottom or from bottom to top. You hardly notice that you are no longer just looking from the outside, but that you are already in the middle of the picture and experiencing it for yourself as you climb through its structure. Awake, we perceive the dense structures as a kind of latticework, we associate them with entanglement, we think of a thicket and its penetration, we believe we sense a threat in the black colours and relief in the yellow ones, we may also think of blazing fire and broken Stars of David and we sense the dangers in a labyrinth. Of course, the picture is not a programme painting or a literal illustration, it is an autonomous work of art that was created in an obviously vehement painting process based on the words of the prophet Jeremiah.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps nothing else testifies to hope as much as the metaphor of the victorious light, which penetrates again and again even in the turmoil, problems and fears of everyday life. It summarises the call to affirm life as well as the wish that it will shine for us in eternity. In the context of the Bible, an image like this can \u2013 in the truest sense of the word \u2013 illuminate this message for us in an emphatic and unobtrusive way .<\/p>\n

Text by Frank G\u00fcnter Zehnder<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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