Gate, 1998
Oil paint on canvas
150 by 130 cm
Installation view
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With the lamp swinging out in the left half of the picture, the eye wanders into the blue field in the center of the picture, which is obstructed by a frontal surface with ornamental structures. They prevent the eye from penetrating into the depths. Instead, the eye is drawn to the star formation, which is set equal to the chiaroscuro of the ground. It could also jump from the green element in the left half of the picture (lamp) to the yellow-green element in the right half of the picture (curtain), glide down to the floor, and from there wander back to the starry surface set in the light-dark equivalent. The round shape, a kind of wheel, steering wheel or cogwheel drives the circling.
Passing the gaze, 1998
Oil paint on canvas
160 x 120 cm
Installation view
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Behind the dark, flat figure on the left edge of the picture is a lamp swinging against a blue field in the centre of the picture. It could be the blue in the cut-out of a window that reaches down to the floor and is delimited by a railing. The colour suggests depth, perhaps a large, distant space, yet it appears impenetrable. The gaze is drawn across the perspectively aligned floor into the depth of the room, jumping back and forth between the swinging lamp and the red curtain, gliding over the blue without being able to anchor itself in it. The gaze is again drawn to the chiaroscuro of the aligned floor, and from there it wanders over the slightly rising columns back to the lamp. The figure serves as a placeholder for the gaze resting in the blue.
Circular stair, 1998
Oil paint on canvas
180 x 130 cm
Installation view
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From a vermilion orange surface in the lower left half of the picture, which powerfully drives the gaze, the eye is led over a spiralling staircase on which there is a figure that seems to develop the shape of the staircase from within itself. At the end of the staircase, an oval appears in the upper part of the picture, in the cut-out of which an intense blue appears. The clear light-dark contrast of the shape of the staircase softens the prominence of the complementary orange-blue colour fields and makes the areas of the picture appear equally clear.
Luna, 1998
Oil paint on canvas
160 x 130 cm
Installation view
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The eye is guided over a bright yellow vertical surface in the left center of the image, at the foot of which is a black circle. Here, the eye follows the perspective-aligned checkerboard pattern of the floor, which leads to the ascending steps of a gray staircase in the lower left part of the image. Above the staircase, on a black background, a formation of light gray and dark gray numbers arranged in diagonal ascending form. They seems to set the yellow surface in a rotation from behind, which brings the right half of the picture to the front. The light numbers lined up horizontally on a blue background on the right half of the picture, make the silhouette of a dark figure stand out, which is partially hidden by the black row of columns of a balustrade.
A convoluted curtain falls on the steps of the staircase at the lower right edge of the picture, which is in clear light-dark contrast. The staircase runs seemingly in the opposite direction to the upward winding staircase on the left side of the picture and directs the eye back to the black disc, from there again to the yellow surface and the pattern of light and dark gray numbers arranged in diagonally rising formations that again drive the right half of the picture forward.
