Coming Close Up

The beginnings of FACES are early companions - portraits, created from photographic notes, first tentative, pictorial memories. They were spontaneous interventions in the visible: hardly planned, rather casual and disorganised. And yet an idiosyncratic mixture grew out of them - fuelled by painting and graphic vision.

For me, the portrait became more than a mere image. I only realised in retrospect that it tells stories. As a painter enrolled at an art academy, it made sense to draw on this environment. So the portrait of a former fellow student from 1982, Barbara Koch, shown here is the first example.

This is also shown by the small selection - a promenade through the past.

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