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About Stefan Saalfeld
Stefan Saalfeld’s works are inspired by classical painting and the possibilities of digital technology. Familiar works are split into their component parts at the computer, then taken to pieces
and reassembled as multilayered models. This process lays bare contour and form and dissolves structure and context, only to ultimately allow these elements to reform in new combinations.
The selected elements can be transformed and alienated by creative use of modern photo editing programmes, and then combined to form complex image narratives. Fascinating compositions are made from
layer upon layer of geometric patterns, textures and psychedelic abstractions. What appeared to be fixed forms lose their boundaries in these pictures and become part of all-encompassing structures,
processes and contexts.
The computer generated aesthetic is surprisingly sensuous and nuanced. The addition of soft painted effects and illusionistic devices make for a unique mixture. Works can be composed of up to forty layers placed one over another. The creative process allows for maximum precision, right down to the tiniest detail. Saalfeld aims for his works to have a dual receptivity: from a normal viewing distance, the overarching idea of the picture and the composition is visible. A close-up view reveals an astonishing amount of detail.
Saalfeld creates his works in series, allowing him to explore the themes he has chosen in detail. He produced four bodies of works in this way between 2009 and 2012, with a visual language that ranges from sketchy webs of lines to clearly structured coloured canvases. The first of these is SPLINES, a series of expressive labyrinths made up of long lines that have no recognizable beginning or end. These diverse works achieve a synthesis between drawing, painting and generative software art. The boisterous dynamism of these pictures calls to mind Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. The digital all-over-action is also intended to liberate the viewer’s perceptions of space.
In SWARMS and CROWDS, the visual range of references and correspondences is so rich that the viewer’s eyes are unavoidably made to see in them shadowy figures and new motives. This digital informality draws on familiar devices from abstract expressionism and takes them to their logical conclusion.
In this age of digital media, pictures are increasingly reduced to the sum of the information contained in them, and interpreted as medial codes and signs. Art history can, in this context, be seen as a sequence of an innumerable multitude of individual positions and formulations. This flow of images is the subject of STREAMS, in which a dizzyingly rapid sequence of images is shown, filtered, layered and reassembled in new combinations. On halting this imaginary stream of images, collisions and elisions are produced, which in turn form a new, post-abstract syntax. The medial, electronic aspect of this process of image generation is expressed in the use of multiple grids, which remind us of distorted photograms, and refer to phenomena such as “image noise” and “ghost images”.
The vocabulary of abstract painting is embroiled in a process of decay and transformation in ABSTRACTS. The eroded remains of once clear and ordered structures are recycled and reorganized. Like flotsam, stripes and patterned elements move across the canvas; there are collisions and elisions. Breaks and openings in the canvas allow a view of the layers underneath.
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LIVE ART AUCTIONS ARE HERE
AKILI RICHARDS and D.L. WARFIELD ARE THIS WEEK'S FEATURED LIVE ART AUCTION ARTISTS
July 5, 2016 - July 14, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
June 30, 2016 - July 9, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"What keeps me going back to DL Warfield is not just his obvious creative excellence, but also the passion he puts behind any project. He’s relentless; he really cares about your product. He will
always be a part of my team."
- Multi-platinum Grammy award winner Usher
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTISTS
London, England, United Kingdom
Bruxelles, Belgium
Munich, Germany
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Venice, California, United States
New York, New York, United States
Sofia, Bulgaria
Dijon, Bourgogne, France
Berlin, Germany
Gascogne, France
Clearwater, Florida, United States
London, England, United Kingdom
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Brasov, Brasov, Romania
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Bulgaria
Paris, France
Bristol, United Kingdom
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
Barcelona, Spain
Miami, Florida, United States
Phuket, Thailand
2016 International Emerging Artist Award | Dubai
Berlin, Germany
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Singapore
London, United Kingdom
Santa Fe, NM, United States
Paris, France
Denis Rodier is a member of la Fondation Taylor, France .
Drouot Cotation 2002, France.
New Zealand
London, United Kingdom
United States
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Trikala, Thessaly, Greece
Llansanffraid, Powys, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
Reno, NV, United States
Hayward, California, United States
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