Hydrography

HYDROGRAPHY is on the pivot point of drawing, painting and medial picture processes. Microscopically tiny images result from the sedimentation of coloured pigments on film, close to the format of a photographic negative. Similar to photography the original HYDROGRAPHY is the starting point for the production of copies of any size and print run. HYDROGRAPHIES can like slides be projected as well, or digitally by data projector. By fully exploiting the entire bright to dark spectrum from absolute white to absolute black the brilliancy of a HYDROGRAPHY exceeds that of a slide by far, whereby shades in fine nuances achieve virtually magic light effects. It’s important to point out that hydrographic images are neither photographed graphics nor computer graphics.

Hydrographic images are rooted in the Far Eastern ink drawing and calligraphy as well as in the spirit of Surrealism with its visual worlds of graphic automatism and psychoanalysis. Art as a parallel to nature: this famous sentence of Paul Cézanne is realized by HYDROGRAPHY in the most direct and impressive way. One drop of ink creates a whole universe, in which natural growth and transformation processes generate a never seen virtual world that appears familiar and strange at the same time. Micro- and macrocosm merge to a projection screen for the archetypical spiritual condition of the beholder. The inspiration by nature stands in the tradition of pantheistic world views from celtic megalith culture to romanticism and is reflected in the synopsis of hydrographic pictures in cyclic suites. HYDROGRAPHY stands for aesthetics beyond all common art forms and provides the metaphysical stage for the recovery of an ability lost in consumer society: cognition by amazement.

The name PHASIS is of Greek origin and means "appearance; luminary; rise of a star; phase of changes". Therereby PHASIS stands for the economic employment of means and a reversal from the common aesthetics in contemporary art to create relevance as regards to contents only from sheer size of giant formats. The philosophy of PHASIS reverts to a holistic approach with the aesthetic ambition to create an entirely new art that doesn’t picture the existing reality or reassembles fragments according to the principles of collage, but works and remains visible also outside the white cube.