Jiri Georg Dokoupil
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Artist
Jiri Georg Dokoupil
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
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Description
- particularly exciting composition in terms of color
- the soap bubble paintings are outstanding in Dokoupil's oeuvre
- Works by the artist can be found in private and museum collections worldwide
As one of the protagonists of the artists' group "Mühlheimer Freiheit", Dokoupil radically questioned the concept of art as early as the 1980s through experimental, unconventional creative processes. In the early 1990s, he began painting with candle soot, applying paint to the canvas with a whip and soon also bursting pigment-saturated soap bubbles on the canvas. A step into painterly no man's land, on the way to a reinvention of painting. For more than thirty years, Georg Dokoupil has been refining this method of image production, which incorporates the chemical processes that occur when soap bubbles burst. The Soap Bubble Paintings that emerge almost independently in this way are polyphonic. They change their colors as the light changes and from angle to angle. Basically, they are composed as non-figurative abstractions that avoid representation but still allow for associations. "False Memories" and "Broken Concepts" are what Georg Dokoupil calls the ingredients that characterize the production of the more recent Soap Bubble Paintings in particular: This results in autonomous, unforeseen images with a mystical aura, which is further exaggerated in the present painting by the strong color contrast.
- the soap bubble paintings are outstanding in Dokoupil's oeuvre
- Works by the artist can be found in private and museum collections worldwide
As one of the protagonists of the artists' group "Mühlheimer Freiheit", Dokoupil radically questioned the concept of art as early as the 1980s through experimental, unconventional creative processes. In the early 1990s, he began painting with candle soot, applying paint to the canvas with a whip and soon also bursting pigment-saturated soap bubbles on the canvas. A step into painterly no man's land, on the way to a reinvention of painting. For more than thirty years, Georg Dokoupil has been refining this method of image production, which incorporates the chemical processes that occur when soap bubbles burst. The Soap Bubble Paintings that emerge almost independently in this way are polyphonic. They change their colors as the light changes and from angle to angle. Basically, they are composed as non-figurative abstractions that avoid representation but still allow for associations. "False Memories" and "Broken Concepts" are what Georg Dokoupil calls the ingredients that characterize the production of the more recent Soap Bubble Paintings in particular: This results in autonomous, unforeseen images with a mystical aura, which is further exaggerated in the present painting by the strong color contrast.