Jakob Kupfer – Licht

Jakob Kupfer is a painter of light in the best traditional sense. His medium and subject are light and the question of how light can become artistically effective.

His Lichtbilder appear like resonance spaces, in which we can experience what happens to our perception as soon as we allow ourselves to be drawn into the pure flow of light without explanatory contours. Without objectivity, they bypass our filter of rationality and thus open our eyes to our own emotions, images and truths and to perception itself.

The interplay of modern optical foils and deliberately designed reflectors creates almost three-dimensional images that are constantly reimagined based on the respective light situation. For the light that paints here is always only the light that is available to the work at that moment and in that place.

The light drawings „written“ directly with sunlight tell of the uniqueness of every day and of the fact that nothing endures except permanent change.

The echo of light and the elapsed moment becomes visible in small-format works on paper, with which Jakob Kupfer harks back to the earliest beginnings of light painting, yet interprets them in a completely new way.

Opening

Thursday, March 20th, 2025, 7 – 11 pm

Exhibition

March 21st until May 10th, 2025