PRESS RELEASE
DIRK SALZ - THE WORLD IS DEEP ...
Feb 10 – Apr 1, 2024
O man! Beware!
What does deep midnight thus declare?
“I slept, I slept
From deepest dreams I woke, and there:
The world is deep
And deeper than the day can bear
Deep is its woe
Lust – deeper still than misery
Woe says: forego!
But all lust wants eternity
-wants deepest, deep eternity!”
In Zarathustra's roundelay, a poem in the book Thus spoke Zarathustra, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche marvelously expresses the limitation of human cognition and our simultaneously - or maybe exactly for that reason - existing longing for emotion and eternity.
Looking at the painted objects of German painter Dirk Salz, we feel an almost perfect match with this poem. The multi layered works of resin and wood, comprise an illusionary depth, evoking the feeling of gazing into a lake, and in vain - trying to discover the ground.
By creating phenomena of light, color, and space, Salz intentionally triggers ambiguous views that indeed provoke an emotional wish for eternity
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