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Using abstract painting, handled innately by now, a century later, visible the painting becomes. Particularly the surroundings‘ back-
Sigrid von Lintig plays freely with the interactions of light and co- ground, which, through the ‚drunken lines‘ as Sigrid von Lintig
lour on the surface. This aspect is re-emphasised by the motif of calls them, allows an autonomous calligraphy of tiles to develop,
immersion. This penetration into another medium is marked by fully free in line with plausibility. The waves‘ movement in a pool
resistance and fragmentational structures. Much as spacecraft is rarely caused by currents, but by refractions in the interactions
using the wrong entry angle can ricochet off the atmosphere, of the many swimmers, divers, the noisy sloshing and splashing
water displays an unexpected firmness, which can be penetra- off the edges. An unsettled surface, marked by flat waves. This
ted more easily and painlessly through adaptation of shape, ge- has the effect that everything underneath it, under influence of
nerating either waves, whirls or bubbles. Painting expands the the sunlight, constantly shows different and broken contours.
guidelines with informal freedom, continues to compose, auto- But irrespective of what the photograph captures as moment,
nomously improvising. what is thus observed is developed further and painted freely.
The bubble structure within detaches from the relation to pho-
In the playful rotations, in the diving in and sinking down, the tograph and moving picture and becomes free painting, particu-
figures develop peculiar gestures. A young man seems awkward, larly since the basic colours end up in classic modern contrast,
and, like a pathos formula, gains something sacral through that not strictly blue, red, yellow, but more cyan, magenta and yellow.
posture. This involuntary positioning has been deliberately se- As a motif, in order to make painting itself playfully visible, to
lected by the artist from a large amount of drafts. Space is tra- make subjects of spatial depth, light, colouring and dissolution of
versed in multiple gestures or in stilted postures, cocoon-like shape, the swimming pool is an ideal location for finding images
compactions of the bodies exist in a rotary or swimming motion. and for the training of perception.
But they are not clearly visible. One divines their actions based In contrast to earlier variations from this swimmer cycle that
on personal experience, filling in the gaps. The painting shows were of a greener hue, blue now stands out more, varied by
a fragmented body, its contours dissolved, it somehow doesn‘t white in different depths and tints. The whole subsists on the
look right and perfect. Only the implication of a photographic natural and artifical light in an indoor pool. With year-round use,
original generates credibility, but the closer one gets, the more seasonal comparison shows that the low-lying spring sun causes

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