Artwork from Klaudia Stoeckl

With the painting An einem Fluss (On a River; 2010), Stöckl opens up a broader range of association. The artist tells us how, while sitting on a river, the meditative quality of the sweeping view inspired a new series of works, one that puts a much clearer focus on contemplation. A fascinating series of meditative images was born from this idea during the summer of 2010.

Unlike in her landscape-inspired works, Klaudia Stöckl now makes sensation a clearer conceptual focus of her paintings. Not visual impressions, but instead abstract notions of the state of being are now depicted as shapes. Stroke for stroke, these ideas are joined together in controlled, vertical batches. The repetition – creating here an interwoven structural pattern – suggests the mental principles of practicing meditation. Emotion is no longer expressed as an explosive act; it now is exercised with sensitive and careful restraint.