Udo Nöger: Geistlos

“When I create my work I do not sit in front of a canvas to fill it up with colors and shapes, instead I set the surface free and investigate what happens beneath the surface of my paintings, to discover an endless meaning of a complete space made of pure and absolute light.
By doing so I attempt to draw and entrap luminosity not only for the practical purpose of highlighting my compositions but also with the objective of rendering abstractions of light – the material I paint with is the light itself.

This transformation of an abstract entity into sensuous terms feels German in both a philosophical and a formal sense. The paintings turn on the paradox that something as disembodied as light can be represented physically, so that our conception of it literally has something to hold”.

Udo Nöger