FRANK BERENDT / ARTISTIC CONCEPT

I am interested in the drama of objectivity,
whose beauty is subject to changeability and vulnerability.
The magic of indeterminate spaces in which the
the body appears as if in devotion.
The mastery of a form that can keep pace with its spiritual content beyond any can keep pace with its spiritual content.
I am in a state of constant a certain powerlessness of choice.
The aim is to create a contemplative depth in the picture.
The attempt to open a window into the landscape of a sensual existence of a sensual existence.
My vocabulary is a figurative visual language.
The spatial indeterminacy of my pictures contains scenes that seem to be frozen in a moment.
The inspiration are emerging images of the world of appearances.
The condensing recurrence in front of my inner eye develops their presence.
This creates stabilised appearances in the painting process appearances, whose fragmentary composition is due to their emergence between emergence and decay.
People, animals, spaces. To express an inwardness, a density, I prefer a reduction of colour.
I prefer a reduction in colour. This creates a visual complexity complexity in the midst of emerging physicalities and sceneries.
I rely on emotional effects through harmonious colour
colour compositions through to monochrome.
Bodies in a state of collection, but also in their abandonment to the world appear.
I often show scenes of stage-like enclosed spaces.
A tangible presence of physicality emerges in these spaces.
I subject the drama that often results from this to a pictorial harmony.
It is like taming the echo of pain.
Through the confrontation with the enigmatic the enigmatic, living immobility of the painted picture, sometimes an attempt to depict the dissolving, disturbed image.
Here the fleeting beauty appears.
Blurring, falling colour lines
lines of colour and occasional damage to the painted skin function partly act like interference transmitters. They refuse a smooth reproduction.
They question the picture.
Figurative scenes, monochrome thicket pictures, still lifes and portraits, in which I deal with them within groups of works groups of works, occupy my canvases.

Frank Berendt / painter.