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HEInz STERzEnBACH | GermAny
www.sterzenbach.de

Fantastic world under the water surface: Some series come into
existence in the studio, whereby travel impressions are transformed:
for example the ‘Fantastic-world below the water surface’, which
came into existence after several diving trips in the Caribbean Sea
and the Red Sea. For this series Sterzenbach used the technique of
Decalcomany with oil painting on Board.
First he prepared the ground of the painting board, and then he
spread oil color thinned with turpentine on the painted board.
A glass top pressed on this thinned color produced the ground
where interesting structures appear which are assembled by the
artist to fantasy figures. Little faces, fishes and other forms, which
Sterzenbach inserts in the coarse structures, increases the dreamlike
surrealistic appearance of the pictures. Sterzenbach´s works are
made in series; many pictures are in process simultaneously.

The floor of his studio is full of pictures in progress. He can work
continuously without waiting for the process to dry. He slowly
approaches the figures which he ‘sees’ in every picture in a different
way. with every stroke of color a figure emerges comprehensibly
to the imagination. Then the artist begins carefully to enforce and
tone down or change the forms of the shape, a conscious process
| UnTiTled i, 2001 oil on BoArd 11,8x15,7 in. | 30x62 Cm. or a subconscious one coming into existence.
| UnTiTled ii, 2001 oil on BoArd 11,8x15,7 in. | 30x62 Cm.
| pU 09, 2001 oil on BoArd 11,8x15,7 in. | 30x62 Cm.
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