Hannibal Wasser: Coalitions

Hannibal Wasser aka Konrad J Peter - Digital Collages

HW Not only the paintings of romanticism are fictional. Any painting suggests a fictional situation. Be it landscapes, portraits or architectures. It starts with the consideration of the painter and ends with the consideration of the viewer.

In the process of creating the paintings, the obvious is always brought to the surface with the color and thus abstracted. Thus, the reality is not mapped, but replicated. A reality is created behind reality, a post-reality, since the painting itself depicts an object. The painting as an object is real and this is where my work begins. We have assumed that the paintings of the Romantic period reflect a reality; so a game with reality starts. Thus, something arises when fictional architecture is brutally stepping into this romantic landscape. One realizes that the paintings do not reflect reality at all, but only correspond to the viewing habits that we have from this era. This strife is what makes these works so appealing.

To disturb the harmonic landscapes of the romantic with a simple but hard architecture in such a way that they merge into a coalition through a mutually reinforcing combination. These elements can only come together in that post-reality, since they only form a unit through combination. A coalition of two non-conflicting viewing habits is therefore not possible. It is through contrast that the fictional representation of reality is revealed. The boundaries between the real and the fictional blur. We become aware of our own ideas and expose them as lies. Here the connection of the elements in post-reality is created.

There is only one feeling: ‘That can’t be!”

Notes

Hannibal Wasser, aka Konrad J Peter, posts on Instagram as hannibal_wasser

Published: 6th March 2020