PAINT CAKES


Particularly striking is Michael Ornauer’s attitude towards the random in the equally organically grown ‘colour cakes’: small wooden panels with piled-up paint, which are created in parallel with the paintings and, so to speak, depict the rejects, the overhang of a work, whereby they in turn become a work of art. ‘The difficulty lies in throwing paint without intention,’ says the artist. 

Excerpt from the interview

“The weight of colors”

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