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Bulb, 2020
von • by Matthias Weischer
Foto: Enrico Meyer
www.matthiasweischer.de

“In most cases, I begin producing my paintings in rather an ab-

stract way – the rooms and the objects surface in a cosmic

soup”, Matthias Weischer describes the start of his painting

process. Objective art with flowing transitions to abstract paint-

ing – besides his training at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, it

is especially due to this quality shown in his work that he ranks

among the representatives of the Neue Leipziger Schule. Seem-

ingly faded colours, collage-like compositions, the ambiguous

structuring of the surfaces thanks to thick layers of paint, a

painting in a painting and, last but not least, written-off orna-

ments and floral patterns emphasize what is past in Weischer’s

quotations of former eras of architecture and art and give his

works a kind of melancholic tranquillity. In all this, the perspec-

tive of the rooms cannot always be clearly traced to a vanishing

point. With the dissolution of the linear relationships of objects

in the room, the artist succeeds in creating exactly this: room!

Room for the viewer who, due to the assumed breaking of rules,

is animated to take on various positions. Firm, solid areas pro-

duce an anchor for orientation amidst these shifts. From the

first to the last stroke of the brush, the hand of the painter be-

comes part of the painting. And, like an archaeologist, the
viewer is allowed to follow the entire process of creation all the

way to the first layers which shine through here and there. “My

paintings do not pretend to represent reality. They always also

refer to themselves and manifest that they are a painting. This

is why I strain the material and like to take it to its limits and

sometimes even beyond the frame”, Weischer states.

© Matthias Weischer und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022.