(Steyr 1958–2016 Vienna)
“Helles Weltfeldfließen”, signed and dated G. Damisch 2001/0 resp. 01/02 twice on the reverse, oil on canvas, 110 x 210 cm, on metal stretcher

Provenance:
Private Collection, Vienna

„So schnell so schnell Wird es jetzt hell So tief so tief Wars als ich schlief Dahin dahin Die Welten ziehen“
Gunter Damisch

Gunter Damisch, one of the most outstanding representatives of the "Neue Wilden" -movement in Austria since the 1980s, always understood his painting as an "evolutionary process" that develops out of "proliferation and growth" and where every "result cries out for a new one or generates something new". His painting can be understood as a pictorial cosmos of micro- and macro-worlds, in which impasto applied colour sculptures transform the canvas surfaces into dynamic spaces of movement. Gunter Damisch did not conceive the imaginative titles of his paintings as a concept, but rather as a "reaction to what happens in painting." WORLD always stands for painting that creates identity and meaning; FIELD reflects the painter's fundamental interest in landscapes, but also in the physical concept of the "energy field". FLOW, to which Damisch dedicated a series of works in 2001, finally refers to the philosophical idea of "panta rhei", to the idea that all being is a dynamic process.

(cf. Gunter Damisch in conversation with Friedhelm Mennekes, in: Gunter Damisch, Malerei, Galerie Hilger, Vienna 1995)