Silent
Topography
a painting project
Recalled
from memory, Silent Topography are painted fictional satellite-images
of land and water formations observed on transcontinental flights between
Europe and the West Coast of the United States.
Silent Topography
is focusing on landscapes, invisible crusts, the diversity of forms, the
crumbliness of organic matter, the all-over unbound and the mysterious
relationships of gravity and water. Silent Topography seeks freedom of
form, through unpretentiously applied color, guided by chance and the
unpredictability of it's outcome.
This series
of paintings are painted Meditations, attempts to listen to the silence
between sounds, seeking the direct way to present stillness, a process
of being in the inner body energy field, entering the un-manifested, entering
silence to experience the eternal present, possibly leading to a freeing
of the limited confines of the mind and opening up the possibility to
a judgmental-free perception.
Trautwein's
paintings have a Zen-like quality, they are spontaneous and fresh, driven
by the old japanese instruction to zen painting “study the bamboo
for ten years, then become the bamboo and then start painting. His work
shows relationships to european art as well, this series has a great affinity
to Informel painting, emphasizing the automatic act of painting, the unconscious
side of artistic production, where the process is more relevant then the
result. Artists like Jean Fautrier, Wols, Dubuffet, come into mind. Trautwein
explores with this series the idea of intuitive, impulsive, liberated
interaction with body movements and artists materials.
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