Between the lines - fragments of light, texture and memory on a wounded surface by Klaus Tesching

About "Between the lines - fragments of light, texture and memory on a wounded surface"

by Klaus Tesching

About the artwork

"Between the Lines" is a work that utilises the language of the unspoken. On a light, almost pastel background of turquoise green and creamy white brushstrokes, a fine, barely decipherable handwriting runs across the surface like a fleeting thought. It does not appear to be written, but left behind - as a trace of an inner monologue or a lost message.

This is contrasted by vertical lines of thickly applied, blood-red colour that run through the picture like cracks or wounds. They break up the softness of the base surface and lend the work an emotional depth that oscillates between vulnerability and departure. A beige-coloured area at the bottom left looks like a detached section - a fragment of another, overpainted picture that still resonates.

The composition looks like a visual palimpsest - superimposed, fragmentary, but full of resonance. The impasto texture of the red lines and the beige field stand in exciting contrast to the smooth horizontality of the basic tone. The result is a dialogue between stillness and expression, surface and depth, memory and present.

"Between the lines" is a work for spaces of reflection - it particularly appeals to those who know how to read the nuances and the incomplete. It is not loud, but insistent. A picture like a faded letter - open, vulnerable and full of history.

Conceived by Klaus Tesching, visualized with AI.