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> Luis Sammers Arbeiten erzählen vom "Daheim und Anderswo" ...
> Die Motive sind gesammelt, der Maler bekennt Farbe.
> Verinnerlichte Landschaften. Zu den Serien Landschaftsspuren
von Luis Sammer
> ich habe ihn verschlafen gesehen, als er um vier
uhr in der früh ...
> Landscape Behind The Landscape
> Che Luis Sammer non aspiri all'interpretazione e nemmeno alle "reinterpretazione"
> "Der zufällige Blick genügt nicht" -- Luis Sammer im Gespräch
Landscape Behind The Landscape
It is not a copied landscape or a topographical reproduction of the visible
that a landscape leaves in me, but rather the painted transposition of the
inner vision of these impressions. Even tough my work is done on the spot,
I avoid facing the subjects of my painting, so that it doesn't confuse the
pictures in my head and soul. It is an entry into a new, internal landscape,
a search for more reality, far away from usual outer appearances, a removal
of outer layers, piece by piece, in order to brush away externalities, to
come to the real meaning of a landscape and, at the same time, to place myself
in the midst of the tension between reality and abstraction.
All paintings drive from landscape. They are created in the permanent dialogue
between the real world and what I crate out of it. Each feature of what has
already happened and which has been fixed in paint, motivates me to view what
has already been seen from changed perspectives. That which has not yet been
discovered grows simultaneously with an ever increasing familiarity with the
object. And the unknown still outweighs any reality beyond the concrete image.
The conscious completion of the painting process does not mean for me that
my subject has been exhausted formally and content wise. It is rather the
documentation of inner discipline, asceticism of the mortal without a reduction
of creative desire. This simply means that not the composition as such as
been completed, but that as a painter I have reached an end with a picture.
I have nothing more essential to add...
--- Luis Sammer