Jörn Diederichs - "The detour is the real way"

Jörn Diederich's painting is based on an intensive analysis of the setting patterns of colour spots. During his undergraduate studies with Prof. Siegfried Klotz, a master of his discipline, he became acquainted with this approach, the essential basis of which is the fanning out of colour tones and surfaces, independent of what a picture should represent or embody. In this way he interlocks small areas placed side by side into tension-laden colour spaces, which he builds up over several painting levels. This includes the constant reworking, sometimes even destruction of already "finished" elements in favour of a picture as a whole. By means of polyperspective and developed distances in the relationship of larger and smaller spatial elements, he effectively spans the pictorial space with his representational painting, whose colour rhythm allows new effects to emerge in that point beyond the object.

© Dr. Frank Schmidt, Dresden, 2017