Writings

Light is the basis of all seeing and enlightenment. For art it is at once a medium and a motif. However, an overabundance of light can also cancel itself out, blurring and disintegrating outlines. As long ago as 1954, one art historian, Wolfgang Schöne, distinguished between “luminosity” – something self-sufficient which radiates outwards – and “illuminating light” – the kind that falls on something from the outside. Between the kind of light that is, in itself, luminous and