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Rien Vörgers

Lived and worked in St. Jeannet, Cöte d’Azur, France
www.pariravan.de

In the 20th century, when photography was in full what a.o. Picabia, Balla, vasarely and Mondriaan
development, it became a ‘must’ for painting to achieved. The way of thinking created by the newly
show more than the visual reality. Contemporary art established chaos theory, that gives its own order to
became more intellectual, i.e. art does not answer an apparent disarray, where chaos is not considered
questions any longer, but reveals preferably the as a hopeless end, but as a source of possibilities,
emotional conditions of the human soul. covers very well Rien vörgers’ work. It has slowly
However, a work of art is the only thing that can become known as consensionism, although Rien
create an image of the world. Impressive art does called it himself his ‘mosaic’ style. The radiating power
not end by revealing the inner structure of the artist, of his work provoked by his renovating carefully built
but develops in order to ever again renew itself, up technique, shows thàt emotional tension in his
as happened in all past centuries via Renaissance, tales, impressions and philosophies, which have the
Impressionism, Expressionism, Futurism, Fauvism. necessary intellectual news value, that will historically
The complex structure of Rien vörgers’ original way mark the last decennia of the 20th century. Thus
of painting, initiated around 1980, proofs to be a making his ‘mosaic’ style of Rien vörgers not only a
further stage in this developing movement, after ‘good’ but foremost a ’big’ painter. (excerpt)
THE CEnTURY’S CHAngE-OvER by R.C.Okel, 2015

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