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Karl Mordstein, Der fließende Raum der Erinnerung, 1983, Etching
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Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), Memory and Present, 1983. color etching, copy 41/50, 22.5 x 28 cm …
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Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), Memory and Present, 1983. color etching, copy 41/50, 22.5 x 28 cm (image), 40 x 45 cm (sheet size), 43 x 48 cm (frame), titled, numbered, monogrammed and dated in lead. Framed behind glass.
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- The flowing space of memory -
to the artwork
On an implied horizon line, a dog-like animal has risen up on its hind legs and is setting to leap to clear some sort of hurdle. To the left of it a small flag is waving in the wind. The animal and the flag point forward in the direction of the reader, into the future. The flagpole, however, bends backwards in the opposite direction and thus corresponds to the movement impulse of the sign-like formations in the 'sky'. The title of this work by Mordstein is also revealing. It reads "Erinnerung u. Gegenwart" ("Memory and Presence") and thematizes the system of signs above the animal as memory. Therefore, it is not so much a sky as the space of the remembering consciousness. The memory moves into the past, but comes from the future and begins where the animal first moves. Mordstein here develops a subtle pictorial philosophy about the character of time and the structure of memory. The system of signs standing for the content of consciousness is inspired by the pictorial language of Plau Klee, whom Mordstein here continues to think in his own way.
about the artist
Karl Mordstein graduated from the Werkkunstschule Augsburg and initially worked as a commercial artist in Munich before concentrating entirely on his own creations as a freelance artist. In 1970 Mordstein married the sculptor Sinen Thalheimer and the artist couple moved to Starnberg. In 1972 a first solo exhibition of his works took place in Munich, which marked the beginning of a lively international exhibition activity that lasted for decades. from 1987 the couple lived on the Hollerberg in Wilzhofen.
It is certainly not wrong to recognize in the impression of his calmly floating color drawings the expression of an attitude of mind that owes itself precisely to this conscious turning away from the hectic art market: concentrated serenity. It is not a changing state of mind, but an empathy with the supra-individual rhythms of creation, the perpetual genesis in the natural cycle of becoming and passing away that is expressed in them.
- Stefan Tolksdorf
Selected Bibliography
Karl Mordstein. Watercolors, gouaches 1972 - 1975, Galerie Angst und Orny, Munich 1975.
Juliane Roh: Karl Mordstein. Bilder, Paintings 1976 - 79, Frankfurt a. M. 1979.
Siegfried Salzmann (text): Karl Mordstein. Works on paper, Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz 1982.
Galerie Heimeshoff (ed.): Karl Mordstein. "Seelen-Notate"; paintings, works on paper, picture boxes; 1985 - 1988, Essen 1988.
Stefan Tolksdorf (text): Lebenszeichen. Mordstein, Karl and Sinen Thalheimer, Essen 2009.
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- Dimensions
- 18.9ʺW × 0.79ʺD × 16.93ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Abstract
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Condition Notes
- Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. less
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