Pop-up exhibition

The artist Alwin Dorok asks himself the fundamental question of what makes a picture a picture, or what painting is. He comes to the conclusion that every type of painting can be reduced to three elements, regardless of content or style: Form, colour and style.

Its central shape is the square.
His works on paper represent an independent group of works within his artistic oeuvre. Even though the works deal with the same formal themes as his paintings and the individual groups of works influence each other, their appearance is different. According to the artist, paper is a completely different medium to paint, which means that the handling and consequently the result must also be different. Using a kind of collage technique, Alwin Dorok mounts semi-transparent to transparent Japanese papers, bleached or natural-coloured, on black photographic cardboard. These papers are either folded or layered on top of each other in different series. The squares appear individually or as rotating pairs of squares. This creates
new shapes with different shades of grey on the black cardboard. The artist consistently continues this working principle of adding up planes in the more recent groups of works by cutting out a mathematically defined surface form in the black square. A new level is added to the picture. The viewer can look through the picture onto the wall. The reverse of the paper work is backed with fluorescent neon paper, so that a coloured shadow falls on the wall and is reflected back into the room through the picture. These works open up the space behind the picture surface and form a unit with the wall.