Ruta de los Pueblos Blancos by Alfred Eggensperger

In terms of my painting, only the moment counts, the pleasure of painting. A dance with the colors, a destruction, a rebuilding. Ultimately, a dialogue with the colors, the canvas and myself.
This is my way of working and my view of art. Not only at home in the studio, but also on the road. By car or on foot and always drawing with the sketchpad.
Similar to the work Cinque Terre from 2019, the work of the famous white villages in the Alpujarras in the south of Andalusia/Spain is a "snapshot"!
A southern mountainous coastal landscape. Bright natural colors due to the landscape, edges, corners and of course the white houses of the Pueblos Blancos in the middle.

A friendly and bright mood, with a touch of a southern atmosphere should be created and illuminate the living room or other rooms accordingly.
The work was painted with acrylic paints and partly with pencil on canvas. The original has a size of 50x60cm.

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During my study period I worked mainly in stone, sometimes in wood. Figural and abstract. I learned to transfer graphic designs and sculptural models into large sculptures. A process of spatial prehension and its execution.

This creative act and statements like: "you're never save from success!" (Original sound Prof. K.H.Türk) affected my studies at the academy of arts Nürtingen.

Later, I involved the space creatively. The room itself became a sculpture. Spatial installations arose, the classical "sculpture on the pedestal" dissolved.

I transferred my studio to the outside. The landscape, the vastness of the spatial served as a background and optical restriction for wooden steles, scythes and huge painted wooden structures.

The last years, due to my personal development, I only handle with colors. The pleasure of painting. A dance with the colors, a destruction, a rebuilding. Eventually a dialogue with the colors, the canvas and myself.

Two themes fascinate me especially when it comes to painting. On the one hand - due to my many years of experience with nude drawing - the figurative, the human form. The human being in the focus, the naked person. Drafting thoughtfully and painterly translated into colors.

On the other hand the abstraction - for me the most interesting terrain. Here, it is essential to activate the inner view, to absorb colors mentally, to combine them and then bring them to the canvas. Sometimes the trigger is a sin

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