ABOUT TIME

Time - a phenomenon of fleeting unattainability contrasted with moments of complete focus. The flash of an idea. The sinking into a feeling. More of a visual experience than a rational comprehension - just as the space-time continuum happens to have four dimensions, but the human mind seems to be made for only three of them.

 

What to do? Projecting three-dimensional space onto the surface of a screen in order to give the temporal dimension a chance? Or interweave everything with everything so closely that the visible contains an inkling of what could be possible in an augmented reality? Containing the projection of an imaginary axis.

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The unattainable that is full of attraction - whirlpools that twirl us into space-time. The artist's pictorial worlds are characterized by great dynamics, speed and expansive gestures.

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Anja Stemmer's playing field has always been the mathematics of beauty - formerly at home in the formulas of theoretical physics, abstraction has remained today, but is now expressed through pure colour: color and paint. Both are meant, because the haptic quality of the material also plays a major role in the artist's work, which can be classified as informal painting.

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Immerse yourself in colors. The artist relatively consistently refuses to attribute forms. To be a guest in an exclusively pictorial-visual world of complete flow - for precious moments in a realm beyond the borders of space and time, that's what the pictorial worlds of the artist Anja Stemmer transport.