Cologne Fine Art & Design 2019
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Peter Royen's painting is sheer meditation – a declaration of stillness, of silence, symbolised
primarily by the colour white, but also black (Werner Schmalenbach, in: P. Royen 1998).
The equilibrium,
the elegant stillness and the reduction
to shades of white and black...
Inspired by the "Mondrianic harmony" he so much admired, Royen's arrangements of geometric
fields create, not a mathematical or programmatic, but rather a meditative kind of abstraction,
though with a formal, concrete effect.
It is the balance and the proportion in this harmonious motion which leads to the stillness to
which Royen aspires, and which permits the viewer only a gradual approach to the subject.
The equilibrium, the elegant stillness and the reduction to shades of white and black – which
the artists deliberately designates as colours, treating them as such – are central features of his
work. Here, black and white provide a transition to the works of the other artists in the
exhibition.
Cologne Fine Art & Design 2019
-
The equilibrium,
the elegant stillness and the reduction
to shades of white and black...
Peter Royen's painting is sheer meditation – a declaration of stillness, of silence, symbolised
primarily by the colour white, but also black (Werner Schmalenbach, in: P. Royen 1998).
Inspired by the "Mondrianic harmony" he so much admired, Royen's arrangements of geometric
fields create, not a mathematical or programmatic, but rather a meditative kind of abstraction,
though with a formal, concrete effect.
It is the balance and the proportion in this harmonious motion which leads to the stillness to
which Royen aspires, and which permits the viewer only a gradual approach to the subject.
The equilibrium, the elegant stillness and the reduction to shades of white and black – which
the artists deliberately designates as colours, treating them as such – are central features of his
work. Here, black and white provide a transition to the works of the other artists in the
exhibition.
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