The Paintings of Peter Grosz

Surfaces break open, tear apart. They arch vividly into the room. Fragile and lucid, yet simultaneously dense and impassable.

The layers within the paintings are both visible and hidden. The subsurface suggests powerful, tension-filled landscapes of a yet undiscovered continent. An observation of these surfaces creates an association of vastness. The eye floats over knolls, hills, mountains, heights, entering valleys.

Other paintings show calligraphic characters. Either adhering to a more precisely assembled structure or lost in mazy fields. Sometimes they also evoke cave-paintings: messages from former times, reminiscent of powerful architecture, intertwining strong lines. They refer to a realm of pre-significance, where the contours possibly unveil people, animals or everyday-objects, while removing one from fixed locations, as if wanting to say: gain your experiences! However, do not hold on too tight, let them go again. Go into the future, but do not forget! The movement around the pictures is also of great importance. You circle them, finding anew exciting perspectives, an openness, making further unexpected access possible.