Colour Fleeces

Starting in 1992, Thomas Emde developed a manufacturing process that enables the creation of a painting from pure colour matter and to dispense with traditional image carriers such as canvas: On a base of coloured material, wafer-thin layers of paint are layered on top of each other at certain points to create a three-dimensional grid structure of tiny colour stalagmites. These stalagmites are built up layer by layer from different colours, so that as the observer's line of sight changes towards the work, its colourfulness also changes. This already heralds the dynamic play of colours that will play a major role in Emdes' later works of light art.