Ocean wave in the cosmos of the tides - fragments and spheres in the breath of the ocean by Frank Bittner

About "Ocean wave in the cosmos of the tides - fragments and spheres in the breath of the ocean"

by Frank Bittner

About the artwork

This work of art unfolds a powerful, abstract seascape - a sensually charged tableau that brings movement and material into intense dialogue. A monumental wave, coloured in deep blue and orange and interspersed with white spray, rears up from left to right across the picture surface. It looks like a living being, formed from colour, energy and rhythm against a light blue sky.

The acrylic paint was applied impasto and with visible physicality. In relief-like layers, the surface rises almost sculpturally from the canvas, whereby the painting enters a space between image and object.

The composition is interspersed with rectangular fragments that appear like floating floes on a moving water surface. Coloured, three-dimensional spheres dance on these seemingly unstable supports - sometimes individually, sometimes in small groups - and lend the scene an almost surreal lightness.

Despite their fragmentation, the individual elements appear to be connected to each other - as if they were sections of a constantly changing structure. The spheres seem like floating impulses or fragments of thought that scatter across the picture surface and intensify the interplay between heaviness and lightness, order and dissolution.

The work thus becomes a multi-layered allegory of the sea: unpredictable, fragmented, alive - a place of constant transformation in which form, colour and space are set in motion.

Created by Frank Bittner with support from AI.