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Lot Essay
The present lot is featured in the video Arts.21 , Let there be light! Painter Matthias Weischer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6LOz3zco0Y, accessed on 28 February 2014).
'Weischer's pictures accomplish that phenomenon typical to postmodernism of bringing together everything that actually does not belong together. Matthias Weischer's key theme is that of being a stranger at home.
Weischer's paintings are voids, which remind us how fleeting our "certainties" really are, and how quickly a safe haven can become a territory of horror. No one lives here anymore. But some are trying to return. Matthias Weischer also paints the eternal Sisyphus, who we should think of, claimed Albert Camus, as happy. Fears of reality. But we can also interpret the painted rooms as hopes for reality. Are they still inhabitable, despite being abandoned and destroyed? Is the inexorable question not lurking in one of these enchanted painted corners of how long still? And what would be the case if it was world that was actually meant?'
(R. Bergmann in 'Nobody lives Here Anymore', Matthias Weischer, Malerei/Painting, 2007-2008, exh.cat., p.77.)
'Weischer's pictures accomplish that phenomenon typical to postmodernism of bringing together everything that actually does not belong together. Matthias Weischer's key theme is that of being a stranger at home.
Weischer's paintings are voids, which remind us how fleeting our "certainties" really are, and how quickly a safe haven can become a territory of horror. No one lives here anymore. But some are trying to return. Matthias Weischer also paints the eternal Sisyphus, who we should think of, claimed Albert Camus, as happy. Fears of reality. But we can also interpret the painted rooms as hopes for reality. Are they still inhabitable, despite being abandoned and destroyed? Is the inexorable question not lurking in one of these enchanted painted corners of how long still? And what would be the case if it was world that was actually meant?'
(R. Bergmann in 'Nobody lives Here Anymore', Matthias Weischer, Malerei/Painting, 2007-2008, exh.cat., p.77.)