(Klagenfurt 1943–1992)
Untitled, monogrammed, dated K 89, oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm, on stretcher, (K)

Full-page colour illustration:
Sammlung Ulmer, 1996, page 80

Exhibited and published:
Kurt Kocherscheidt, das fortlaufende Bild – The Continuing Image, MAK Wien, 25 June – 5 October 2003, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003, p. 101

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany – directly from the artist

Oswald Wiener invited me for a beer in his “Matalla” bar in Berlin, explaining to me that flat-surface painting was dead forever. Around 1975, I began to do more painting again. In the very isolated situation that I was in back then I felt that my activity was something like reinventing the wheel. Slowly, images began to break free, to become independent from me. Objects vanished, perspective and spatial, three-dimensional representation phased out while the idea, hitherto not clearly formulated, that the work of art and the design for it reside at different addresses was gaining contour. This insight was corroborated by a severe disease as well as by the temptation and the impossibility to describe it using my own means. The autonomy of images must be understood as detachment from the existential condition of the artist. The paintings get close to music. “... the sounds of surfaces, the roar of pictures and colour areas, the pace of signs”
(Wolfgang Rihm)
Kurt Kocherscheidt, December 1991 – from the above mentioned literature