Curt Walter 2023
Channel: Curt Walter
Date: 2023-11-01

Video description Curt Walter 2023
This video provides information about Curt Walter. He'll introduce himself in a minute. He presents his last work. "Atlas of Imagination", drawings and oil paintings. He also touches on his art theory invention. “Inside in and Out Art” and “Outside In and Out Art” complement all theoretical insights. More on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/curt.walter/
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Inside out Art
For me, working artistically from within, from the inner self, means: looking meditatively into oneself and perceiving the images that arise before the inner eye, in order to then turn them outwards with drawings. The drawings give the inner images a face. They are hieroglyphs, fragments, textures, signs, pictograms from the inner world. In this way, images emerge that are only fragments, which only hint at the form, as if the drawn present wants to say: "here is also absence". A game develops between the subconscious and the conscious. I find in the subconscious the energies, forms and spheres that I draw in the conscious. For me, looking into my subconscious is a purely personal, creative exploration of my inner self, without irritations and limitations from the outside. It is drawing as a spontaneous reflection of my own reality, unbound by arbitrary rules.
The associations present in the subconscious are expressed artistically. These associations in the subconscious are fed by all spiritual and sensual experiences. I want to sound out and experience my own subconscious and thus try to represent these impressions in my drawings, painting and art.
My aim is to find new perspectives on seeing and understanding conditioned by habits. On this path of creativity I reach the most authentic in me, and this with little effort. The path is an honest and wise one. To conjure the graceful images from a silence is like drawing water from a draw well. Everyone has the possibility and the luck to draw from this source, artists should use it. A look inside oneself shows the way out. It is as if Dschuang Dsi said to me: "You look into the invisible, in the midst of the invisible darkness you alone see it dawning. You know how to grasp the depths of the deep, and you are able to shape the spiritual into seed power.
Outside in and out Art
"Outside in and out Art" for me, as I said before, is seeing outside from the eye. "Outside in and out Art" practice is the drawing, copying of things and the outside world, a reshaping of reality. To distinguish things in order to connect them with a spontaneous, intuitive perception is "Outside in and  out Art". Good examples of "Outside in and  out Art" are art movements such as Objet trouvé, Ready made, etc. Objet trouvé and ready made are products of the idea from the outside. You find something and declare it a work of art. Incorporating a new function into a thing is a genuine "Outside in and out Art" approach. In the mind, the idea comes from looking at an object. One thinks about how to transform the object into a different function and then rename it. The way to this idea was first by looking at it from the outside in and then through the reflection into an alleged work of art. The work of art thus created, however, lacks its own authentic idea from the inner eye, something of the artistic self. Who is the real author here, one might ask.
Another example from my own practice: The climate of 2018 made me aware of my own threatened state of mind. The heat of the summer was a threat to my body. The escape into the shade was decisive for the group of works "two fields, one centre". Whether storms, lightning, masses of water or conflagrations and heat - my preoccupation with natural events was intense and with great personal commitment. I searched for pigments that could give form to this heat and threat. I processed my own dystopian experiences and wove them into various paintings. 
Another very tragic example is described by Emile Zola in the novel "The WORK". Here, the obsession with imitating nature actually leads to a tragic suicide. Zola describes a painter who is obsessed with his painting and the painted naked woman on whom he changes colour tones with his brush for years in order to bless her in the divine. The painting and the naked woman in the painting become the focus of his life. He hardly notices his wife, who had been the model for this painting. The painted female body on the canvas radiates more power than the nude model herself. In nonsensical ecstasy, the painter rapes reality and exaggerates it into the supernatural. However, he fails in his claims to imbue the painted woman with a touch of divinity and hangs himself in the studio in front of his painting. His wife ends up in an asylum. Thus the murderous painting poisons two lives at once: that of the painter and that of his model.