Matthias Weischer - Berg, 2013, Lithografie, handsigniert, nummeriert

Matthias Weischer, "Berg", 2013, lithograph, 30 x 40 cm, 100 + 20 AP, numbered and signed on the front

Matthias Weischer, born in 1973, is assigned to the so-called New Leipzig School, i.e. the group of German artists who a few years ago caused an international sensation with figurative painting. With his edition for “Texts on Art”, a lithograph simply titled “Mountain”, the painter Weischer does not work on canvas, which in his work can also be large-format, but on the smaller medium sheet. And “Berg” also demonstrates such a change in scale between large and small. "Like a pebble," says Weischer himself, the geological formation in the foreground lies in the flat landscape. In fact, this almost figurative structure plays on two scales at the same time: As a counterpart to the massif rising in the background, it is clearly “mountain”; as a closed, rounded shape, which is kept company by the bushes and trees that are standing around it and crouching on it (as if they had climbed the mountain), it looks more like an isolated stone - large and small at the same time, as part of the landscape and yet almost beautiful like a figure in her. Weischer found this motif on a journey through the Alps and captured it in a "fleeting encounter" - again his words. This quickly passing by is also “captured” in Weischer's lithograph. The undulating, isolated white brushstrokes of the clouds and the black ones, which paint the rather barren vegetation as if painted, stand in front of a priming color gradient from lime green to lilac to the pale orange-rosé of the floor. Although an alpine motif, this mountain and its surroundings lack anything monumental. Instead, it almost conveys a feeling of lightness.
From texts on art ISSUE NO. 91 / SEPTEMBER 2013 "GLOBALISM"