Klaus Oldenburg(*1942 Berlin), Eccentric discharges of a blue-red core
, around 1975. paint and cast resin on chipboard, 39 x 59 cm (inside dimension), 42 x 62 (frame), signed on the reverse "Kl. Oldenburg".
- with isolated rubbed spots, otherwise in good condition
- Energetic traces -
Discharges emerge from a blue energy core with a red corona, reflected in black traces of color. A snapshot that freezes the moment and at the same time is an ongoing processual movement. In this way, time itself is represented as a perpetual moment, which further increases the dynamics of the image.
The synthetic resin used creates a glossy surface that literally seals the motif within itself. As a result, it does not appear to have been made by an artist's hand, but as something autonomous that has been fixed by a quasi-scientific process. The flow of the synthetic resin reflected in the motif also contributes to the effect of independence: The energetic discharges have found their adequate visible form in the flowing movements of the material. We seem to be witnessing an event in the atomic or subatomic world that becomes present in the event of form and color. Thus, the abstract art before our eyes is by no means purely abstract, but has a representational connotation and is a rare painterly example of the epoch of the Space Age.
About the artist
Born in Berlin, Klaus Oldenburg studied at the State School of Civil Engineering in Berlin from 1961 to 1964 and then worked as a civil engineer and architect until 1967. From 1967 to 1968 he ran the jazz club and artists' meeting place "Kilroy" in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and then devoted himself entirely to art as a freelance painter. From 1968 to 1972 he had a studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg and from 1972 in Berlin-Friedenau. Since 1972, Oldenburg, who belonged to the Kreuzberg Bohemians, has shown his work at the Free Berlin Art Exhibition.
