The Primeval History of Paintings
"Die Urgeschichte der Bilder", 1987
[The Primeval History of Paintings], Ensemble: 1 painting and 4 painted wooden aquariums, oil on pinewood, 120 x 300 cm (painting), 110 x 180 x 70 cm (objects), Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, TH-1987-DF-02
"If the painting would be water, binding conception, under which all paintings unite…The water’s surface as a place full of metaphors, where a condition begins to exist and another ends. Border between water and air, level of contact of two realms. There I see the paintings. For they are an in-between. Two media come into contact in them. As happens between air and water in the lakes and oceans, large and broad, like the long time that passed since living beings went on land, leaving the water, crossing this border. The water’s surface is the great painting of that place of age-old transformation."
-T.H. Die Urgeschichte der Bilder [The Primeval History of Paintings]-
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Publications
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"Die Urgeschichte der Bilder - La préhistoire des tableaux", 1987 (The Primeval History of Paintings), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (ed.), 1987, [de, fr], 80 pages, 30 colour illustrations., 22 b/w illustrations, format: 29.6 × 22 cm. |
Gallery (4)
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"Die Urgeschichte der Bilder", 1987 [The Primeval History of Paintings], oil on canvas, 120 x 300 cm, Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, TH-1987-B-05 |
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"Die Urgeschichte der Bilder", 1987 [The Primeval History of Paintings], Ensemble: 1 painting and 4 painted wooden aquariums, oil on pinewood, 120 x 300 cm (painting), 110 x 180 x 70 cm (objects), Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, TH-1987-DF-02 |
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"Die Urgeschichte der Bilder", 1987 [The Primeval History of Paintings], Installation: Ensemble: 1 painting and 4 painted wooden aquariums, oil on pinewood,, 120 x 300 cm (painting), 110 x 180 x 70 cm (objects), Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, TH-1987-DF-02 |
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"Protozoa", 1987 Oil on wood, 110 x 180 x 70cm, Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, TH-1987-O-2a |