"Elementargeister"

Elementargeister — Elemental Spirits. The title reaches back into German Romantic mythology, into the idea that nature is animated by invisible forces: undines, sylphs, gnomes, salamanders. Here, they have been painted back into existence.

The canvas is dominated by a vivid turquoise — not sky, not water, but something between the two. A primal atmosphere. From within it, two vertical forms rise like monuments or figures: one in olive green, dense and layered with red and black beneath its surface; the other in magenta and violet, more transparent, more ghostly. They stand together without quite touching, each carrying its own internal world of dripped paint and scraped marks and buried color.

The work is simultaneously ancient and electric. The palette is contemporary — almost neon in places — but the feeling is older. Something summoned. The horizontal gestures in the upper half crash through the space like weather, like will, like the kind of force that doesn't ask permission before it arrives.

At 180 × 160 cm, it has the scale of an encounter. Standing before it, you don't look at the spirits. You stand among them.