Dario Wokurka
Untitled Solo Exhibition
Finissage
Saturday, March 5, 11.00 – 16.00
Even before they became watercolors, they were already watercolors. Before that, they were already images: views of the bust of the philosopher’s loved one in the catalog of an auction house for example, a photo from a newspaper, well-known paintings, templates from various other sources, or Chinese scholar painting. Painterly interesting appearances, whose basic characteristics were taken over and provided with further elements. There is an appropriating, combinatory relationship to the choice of elements within these images and their expansion in space. They are placed in relation to each other in the picture, directly in the frame object, but also in the exhibition situation. With this approach, both the choice of elements and equally the decision of their combination are vested with meaning. This, however, is guided less by symbolism than by a close observation of the field of painting, which is not indebted to the relevances and classifications of recent art history. Certainly there are preferences here, but then precisely within works and contexts that pursue a similar interest: to counter the problematic fields of painting of their respective time with a self-supporting and questioning work that actively incorporates the main features of the medium itself in its production.