Stefan Onowski

"Lichtung" - series of 2-color oil-based woodcuts on paper, Edition 6, size of each print: 69 x 50 cm
©2019 Stefan Osnowski

LICHTUNG is the german equivalent for glade, an open area inside the forest where suddenly light breaks through the branches. With these works I want to react to modern automatisms of "digital vision" by trying to confront the viewer with this virtualization of vision. The actual image motifs, some of which have been broken down and reduced to the smallest aesthetic elements, such as points, lines or wave-like interferences, dissolve in front of the eye of the observer or partially even completely fade away in the light: they are images between the visible and the invisible, blurred, yet whispering imagery.

Detail of "Lichtung" (1/6) in yellow / rubine red - series of 2-color oil-based woodcuts on paper, Edition 6, size of each print: 69 x 50 cm
©2019 Stefan Osnowski