The artist Sebastian Herzau skillfully plays with our perception and creates illusions and often multifaceted, ambiguous and complex pictorial spaces in his painting, which reveal his experimental curiosity and leave us amazed and questioning.
leave us amazed and questioning. We immerse ourselves in his pictorial worlds, often mysteriously, as Herzau deliberately works with alienation and overpainting. This conceals information, but at the same time creates a new kind of perception. It is precisely this alienation and this concealment that create closeness and uncertainty at the same time, forcing the viewer to oscillate between the familiar and the known and the newly experienced.
We think we recognize landscapes, stories and portraits and form our own associations – but does the artist see the same thing in them as we do? Herzau also asks himself this question and is particularly interested in the relationship between the painter and the picture. Because only he knows the origin, the many intermediate artistic steps and the conclusion of each work, of which the viewer knows nothing. The idea, the preparations, the development, the composition, the choice of colors, the painting process, the considerations, the overpaintings, the alienations, the composition, the pictorial language and the completion, all of which he knows.
The pictorial language and completion all take place in his head and studio.
This interplay between painter, picture and viewer is incredibly exciting and thrilling – and that is what makes art.
art.
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