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Lot Essay
'A painting is a field of forces, the arena where its author's impulses all come together, there to be transformed, re-formed into a movement of colour. Energies, which the painter has received out of the fullness of the Universe, are now directed into channels opened to the spirit of the onlooker.
What is colour?
Colour is the articulation of light.
And what is light?
Light is the sphere of everything that lives, the element in which the trialogue of painter, painting and spectator must take place; it is caught and intensified into a continuous vibration which contains all three.
What is vibration?
Vibration is the activity of the nuance, which outlaws contrast, shames tragedy and dismisses drama. It is the vehicle of the frequencies, the life-blood of colour and the pulse of light. Vibration is pure emotion and pure energy, that which give the picture its radiance.
What is pure energy? The undisturbed continuum, never-ending, unquenchable, the stuff of life.
What are they all, painting, colour, light, vibration and pure energy? Life. And the free spirit.'
(Otto Piene quoted in: A. Glibota, 'Otto Piene', Paris 2011, from: exh. cat., Vision in motion - motion in vision, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, 1959)
What is colour?
Colour is the articulation of light.
And what is light?
Light is the sphere of everything that lives, the element in which the trialogue of painter, painting and spectator must take place; it is caught and intensified into a continuous vibration which contains all three.
What is vibration?
Vibration is the activity of the nuance, which outlaws contrast, shames tragedy and dismisses drama. It is the vehicle of the frequencies, the life-blood of colour and the pulse of light. Vibration is pure emotion and pure energy, that which give the picture its radiance.
What is pure energy? The undisturbed continuum, never-ending, unquenchable, the stuff of life.
What are they all, painting, colour, light, vibration and pure energy? Life. And the free spirit.'
(Otto Piene quoted in: A. Glibota, 'Otto Piene', Paris 2011, from: exh. cat., Vision in motion - motion in vision, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, 1959)