Title: The Breakthrough, 2025
Size: 90 x 90 cm
Material: Acrylic on canvas

The work “The Breakthrough” is inspired by Pierre Soulage, 1919–2025, a French artist of abstract, non-representational painting. Typical of Soulage are, among other things, his pictures with strong black bars of different lengths. In this work, the artist has adopted Soulage’s style and presents a work that convinces artistically through its strong symbolism: dark, block-like forms reminiscent of a wall, which is broken up by an expressive white paint application, stone. The contrast of black and gray to white creates a dramatic tension between limitation and liberation. The impasto painting of the white, which appears broken and rugged and represents a massive stone, seems to reach out to the viewer. This stone conveys an impression of energy, resistance, and overcoming. Through the reduction to elemental forms and colors, a universal image of breakthrough, transformation, and hope emerges. The painting stands on the floor and leans against a larger, unpainted canvas, which reinforces the impression of the mass of the image.

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