SCHWEIGER detlef & STAUDINGER oskar - Double show - aavuren & drawing

ONE WEEK SHOW Nr. 3

Vernissage on FRI 30 May 2025 / 8:00 pm

Artists will be present!

Introduction: Dr Tina Simon / publicist / Leipzig

Music:   Florian Maier / violin / Dresden

Last Day on MO 09 June / from 1:00 pm

Special opening hours during the ONE WEEK SHOW - daily from 1:00-7:00 pm

FLOX Gallery - Obergraben 10 - 01097 Dresden / in the Neustadt Baroque Quarter

SCHWEIGER detlef - Lavuren - The wet-on-wet process, the flowing distribution of colours, is known as wash painting. The artist uses a self-produced ink for washing. The precise individual brushwork certainly also plays a major role. The technique of Schweiger's wash involves creating the form from the centre, from the location of the brush on its own primer with a very special water as a flowing agent. Detlef Schweiger's lavures are scores of an idiosyncratic notation, a system of signs of an ambient meta-language that creates spherical, gentle, elongated, flowing, abbreviated, concentrated, warm pictorial compositions. The artist and the willing recipients could go beyond the framework of purely pictorial representation by means of muzakalic sound production, which continues to work as an aggregate in the sense of a whole, from individual notated parts that are not really connected pictorially, as sound. The power of synaesthesia, the ‘hearing’ of colours and the ‘tasting’ of sounds can thus be represented more significantly.  However, their interpretation is more subject to a physiological - optical interpretation. A final quote from Pablo Picasso may be allowed: ‘There are painters who turn the sun into a yellow spot. But there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun’ - how true - simply opera.

© Excerpts from texts by Holger Wendland, catalogue ‘crossover’, Berlin, 2024

STAUDINGER oskar - drawing - The work of Richard Wagner has accompanied Oskar Staudinger since his earliest childhood - a lifelong fascination that is deeply rooted in his artistic identity. He began to explore the evocative power of Wagner's music at an early age. The composer's onomatopoeic soundscapes opened up imaginary spaces for him to escape to in his dreams - distant, mythically charged places beyond the everyday. It was therefore no coincidence that his first solo exhibition in 2017 was entitled ‘In fernem Land’, a direct allusion to the aria of the same name from Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin. In his current series of works, Staudinger focuses his graphic gaze on the monumental musical-dramatic Gesamtkunstwerk Der Ring des Nibelungen. The result is intimate works on paper that explicitly break away from stage sets and traditional iconographic representations. In a small format and with fine lines, these drawings form a deliberate counter-world to the exuberant force of the tetralogy. They are visual miniatures - poetic condensations - that open up new pictorial spaces, as it were. They invite contemplative contemplation and reveal a multi-layered interplay between musical inspiration, individual imagination and artistic reflection Staudinger's works thus not only continue a personal dialogue with Wagner, but also offer new impulses for a contemporary approach to the myth.

©  ANNELIESE Ackermann, Radebeul, 2025