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26.November 2011:
Vernissage in the old forester‘s house on the hill, in Jestetten / South-Germany.
A very successful full house event accompagnied by amuse-bouches brésiliens cooked with love by Marcia Meckel, topped off with a full-bodied South African wine.
To meet the great interest in the exhibition, on short term a finissage was arranged for the day after, Sunday, 27. November.
05. January 2012:
Finally online: ART now now ! website is operational, published and ready to host visitors, friends, art aficionados and collectors! A warm welcome to everybody!
THE ICON
60 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
A tale of dependence and worship. The old wooden mask carries a curvaceous female figurine with it.
One line of life originating from her womb spawns life, passion and pain. It weaves a web of interdependence, controlling all senses and leaving behind a pattern of destiny, engraved in the face of the host. Lines that reverberate in the pattern of the wallpaper.
The glow contrasts effectively with the purple and pink of the back-ground.
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16.May 2012
Here are some of my new oil paintings:
PALM-LINED TRAIL
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
In this painting I particularly enjoyed the composition. I placed the trees and shaped the path so as to lead the viewer’s eyes down the trail towards the distant mountains at the horizon.
The blood-red soil nicely contrasts with the lush greens and shades of blue. In the upper half of the painting, we find a parallel situation: the greenish leaden sky is interspersed with oranges and reddish palm leaves.
AFTERGLOW
50 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
A confident rooster crosses the scene as earthenware jugs cool down after burning. The heat is echoed in the flame-like shapes of the shooting grass and the rooster’s wild plumage. The painting was made on a layer of still wet magenta and burnt sienna thus leading to an overall pervasion of red shades, radiating warmth through all layers of paint.
NIGHT THOUGHTS
60 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
As I did some sketches for this painting, I had memories of countless journeys under southern night sky. Calm vibrations and an even buzz lulled me to a tranquil and dreamy state, observing the lines of the power poles dancing up and down and the blaze frisking the edges of wilderness. I had often asked myself what happened out there in the dark shadow of those ridges floating past my window. As I listened to the wooing of the night, thoughts of hidden dangers outside my thin pane of glass sent shivers down my spine.
The canvas was primed with chromium oxide green in order to pervade the painting with a fluorescent-like glow that comes from the outside residual and the dashboard light.
NUDE
ON RED SOFA
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
A young beauty lounges on a sofa. The warm green used for the shadows of her skin tones is pleasantly balanced by the red hues of the sofa. The turquoise cools down the otherwise predominately warm colour temperature that was generated through canvas priming with burnt sienna and magenta.
HEAT
50 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
A journey interrupted, seeking a cooling shade. All creatures – except for some lizards – escape the debilitating heat. Everything blurs in the boiling heavy air, numbing all senses. Through the fume, a hopeful eye looks at the bank of clouds.
Two sets of contrasting colours are predominant: red/green and yellow/purple
06. June 2012:
The ART now now ! website structure is adjusted in order to host an e-Shop that will offer reprints of Rainer‘s art work.
30. October 2012
Some new oil paintings:
FRANGIPANI
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
The branches of the frangipani tree appear strangely naked and succulent, like cucumbers. The flowers, however, are lush, spreading a sweet intoxicating scent. The tree is deciduous and looks a bit peculiar with its numerous grey and long, leafless fingers standing out against the sky.
However, when bunches of spiral-shaped, pink buds, elliptic leafs and sweeping blossoms start to grow at the stem-end, one simply cannot get enough.
POOLSIDE
80 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
Sun, water and wind. I tried to create the feel of a light-flooded and wide-open space under an endless sky. The minimalist layout and austere geometry are supposed to enhance the effect of a pleasing emptiness, the experience of pure existence.
Shadows were kept transparent to enhance the light-flooding effect of the reflected backlight.
AFRICAN BASTARD
50 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
As puppies pampered and petted, they later find no more attention and are mostly considered irritating and intrusive, often chased away with stone throws, abused.
The miserable wanderers prowl side streets, tails tucked they trot down village trails.
Adorned with a cord around its neck and typically curled up in a ball like a cat, this African street breed lies in the shadow of a rusty and dented barrel, embellished with a flaming creature that once might have fed hopes for a better life.
GIRL WITH STOCKINGS
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
A rust-red priming was applied on top of a textured dry oil paint layer, on which the painting was then executed, wet-on-wet. The lilac bed linen nicely harmonizes with the auburn stockings and the greenish glimmering of the wall.
LOST CAUSE
50 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
Guardians of law and order, obedient and all geared up, enforce whatever is necessary to maintain progress and prosperity and ensure that nothing stands in the way of the machine. The wheels must keep turning. Smoke still rises from the chimney, although the factory shows signs of attrition.
An ageing punk is fighting a lost cause.
