SALOMÉ BERGER
Wieder und wieder glänzte es irdisch, 2020, Oil and ink on canvas, 200 x 180 cm, courtesy the artist and Young Art GbR

The artist says:
This work was inspired by a view from the Fondation Beyeler museum in Basel and an interest in the connection between nature, landscape and architecture. I have explored these themes intensively in earlier works, which resulted in a series of pool images set in a natural landscape. The present work was created on this basis. The pond became a colourful surrounding space/pool with reflections of the surrounding trees and bushes, the stairs are hinted at schematically, and the architecture is homogeneously embedded in the landscape. But on a second level, as in the ‘New Places’ series of images, which was created at the same time, I painted opaque and translucent areas and streaks, remnants of another image, into the ideal landscape. This gave the landscape a crack, which not only concealed, cropped and interrupted it formally, but also caused it to undergo a break from its paradisiacal state into an ambivalent form in terms of content. Concealing and revealing, directing the gaze – these motifs permeate my entire oeuvre.