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Berlin Portraits physiological qualities, but they rather reflect their
Berlin Portraits represents the project of
visualisation of a group of individuals in a spatial
installation. The cycle consists of 13 portraits of
people who lived in Berlin between 1961 and 1989.
They are: Helmut, Werner, Karl, Liselotte, Ingrid,
Monika, Walter, Manfred, Gerhard, Ute, Günter,
Peter and Hans.
Each person is depicted with a specific combination
of light and shadow, which is reflected by the 13
vertical painting objects onto the wall or onto their
environment. Their portrait images are created as a
reflection of paint, as light and shadow responding
to the changes in daylight or artificial light in the
environment. They offer the spectators an image
that slowly, but constantly changes and warns us
of the necessity of summing the created images
into a single one. The portrait depictions do not
show the portrayed person’s external material and
TOTO RIMELE | SINGUL AR WERNER (BERLIN PORTRAITS, 2/13, DETAIL), 2018 PEARL WOOD, COLOUR, WAX, GRAPHITE PENCIL 44.4X3.8X1.5 IN. | 112.9X9.8X4 CM.
PHOTO: DAMJAN ŠVARC
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non-material image, their ethical dimensions and
their mental and spiritual space. The depictions
show the portrayed person’s personality in a
moving image defined by the presence and absence
of light generated by an individual painting object.
I am aware that in experiencing reality every
spectator attempts to possess the World and
the Truth and connect them into a whole. In
experiencing the described portraits, it is essential
that the spectators share their own light and
shadow with the image of the portrayed person.
This is the only way that the above named and
depicted persons can come to life Here and Now.
And the spectator becomes the active possessor of
the image. “He who possesses the world, but not its
image, possesses only half the world because their
soul is poor and without possessions,” wrote C. G.
Yung in The Red Book*. (Oto Rimele)
* C. G. Yung, The Red Book – Das Rote Buch, p. 130.