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Nächtliche Szene (1988) Nächtliche Szene Artist: Rolf Winnewisser Dating: 1988 Type: Painting Material: Acrylic and chalk on cotton Measures: 186 x 260 cm Acces / purchase date: 1990 Inventory number: 0602
The elements with which Winnewisser structures the picture surface are always in the process of condensing into signs that refer to something outside themselves. This quality of Winnewisser's language of signs, expressed in openness, fragility and vulnerability, is one of the keys to understanding the poetic structure of his art: Winnewisser's paintings can be compared to a message in a bottle. The message contained in the bottle can only be deciphered with difficulty by the finder, as the ink has faded in many places. The letters and word fragments he can make sense of, however, are enough for him to imagine a multitude of possible stories. The viewer of Winnewisser's "Bildtüchern" experiences a similar situation: the more open, curious and associative he approaches the pictures, the more the "inner sound" of Winnewisser's pictorial world is revealed to him.
Baloise Art Commission/Public Relations, January 1998