”We meet at the studio at a time when not a single painting for the upcoming exhibition “BLICK” at Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery is finished, but the painter has already started most of them. Canvases, small formats, hang close together, each in a different stage of completion. Stefan Hirsig does not paint one picture after another, but rather in parallel, with every idea, every approach, every thought, every memory pushing forward, each canvas its own cosmos. Where to begin when everything is there at once?
In an initial chaos of nothingness that needs to be sorted out mentally, only two stripes of color can create structure, depth, and space. A blue stripe suggests a horizon, a flowing gray a first gesture, still without a destination. And from that first supposed structure, a new abstract chaos emerges, made up of shapes and colors that are partly organic, partly collage-like, overlapping and then exposed again. And then, little by little, something figurative develops from all of this. Faces, people, hands become clear, seeming to find their way in these living worlds. (…)“
Excerpt from ”Where the Gaze Wanders and Turns | An Encounter in Stefan Hirsig’s Studio,“ by Verena Osthoff
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If you‘d like to see the result of the ”initial chaos of nothingness,“ come visit the exhibition »BLICK« with new works by Stefan Hirsig, on view through February 7.
📸 Photographs by Oliver Mark
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