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Very little seems to connect the numerous panels that Uwe Walther has joined together to create an almost inscrutable field of images. At a cursory glance, they seem all too disparate. The range spans from near abstraction to detailed representationalism, and even within the figurative works the variation in motifs and manner of depiction is extremely broad.
Delicate work reminiscent of old master fine painters stands alongside freely applied impasto that causes the motif to recede behind the painterly execution. Scenes with a handling of line and a beauty worthy of an old master – like the panel with two pairs of legs swishing diagonally out of the frame, enveloped in a torrent of drapery folds, like those familiar from the dramatic compositions of Baroque painting, are found right beside works in which the painting seems crude and raw.
 Uwe Walther, Monte Rosa, Tempura on paper, 200 x 220 cm, 2008. |
