Frontlinien (Seelinien)
- Large painting - 3 metres wide!
- Abstract Seascape - Warships Among Meandering Lines
- Contemporary painter from Chemnitz, Germany
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Features and Remarks
This expansive, 3-meter-wide oil painting plays with various techniques. The painting is titled “Frontlines” and can be seen as a playful allegory of a war-torn seascape.
Military equipment, ships, and gun barrels are rendered as monochromatic silhouettes. They are set against broad, tightly meandering lines in blue and green. In between, other forms created with symbolic lines are discernible.
The background of the painting is entirely abstract. Various splashes of color, fields, and swirls shimmer through the lines. The rhythmic composition is thematically rooted in reality but is transformed by Goller’s painting practice into an associative interplay: focused—meditative—exploratory.
A truly monumental painting—in an exceptionally large panoramic format. One of the Chemnitz artist’s largest works!
„The truth in painting does not lie in the representational or the non-representational. I search for time and space in order to continue the search for the archetype.“
Michael Goller
There are elements in Goller's painting that recur cyclically and that never let go of him: The examination of the colour spectrum, working in several layers or the interplay of gesture, form and sign in the surface. In addition, there are episodic elements that they feed from the exploration of a particular theme or from the interplay of personal experience.
The finished work is thus always also a testimony and archive of the painter's current interest and situation. In the overall view it is never static, it develops from one point to the next.
Informations about the artwork
| Category | Malerei |
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| artist | Goller, Michael |
| year | 2008 |
| Title | Frontlinien (Seelinien) |
| size 1 | 120,0 x 300,0 cm |
| material | Oil on canvas |
| edition | Unique |
| signature | Signed lower right: M. Goller 2008 Verso titled, signed and dated: Frontlinien (Seelinien) Michael Goller 2008 |
| publication | Werkverzeichnis-Nr. 2008_3 |
| Provenance | Artist's studio |
Information about the condition
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The Painting is in a very good condition |
Information about the artist
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Michael Goller was born in 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz). Goller has developed a gestural, direct style of painting that is complemented by schematic perspectives. The lyrical compositions are sometimes intense and at the same time balanced in colour. In many paintings, he uses written elements as well as his self-developed font, which resembles runes. Goller's paintings consist of interlaced layers of gestural and graphic elements. The approach to his pictures is an "optical oscillation in the resonant frequency of the picture". He works on individual pictures for up to a year, "allowing the painting to coagulate in time", which does not contradict the intuitive gestures. In 2003, Michael Goller co-founded the artist group Querschlag and, together with Peter Piek, the artist initiative Malfront (2003-2007). The artist has regularly exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe since 1997. Individual works can be found in public collections. Source: This text based upon the article Michael Goller from encyclopedia Wikipedia which is available under GNU Licence of free documentation. The list of contributers you can find at wikipedia.org |
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