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“I do not paint light, I create it.”
(Oto Rimele, June 2018)

*What are the core and fundamental themes and
concepts of your art?

My painting compositions could also be called
“generators of light” or “catchers of light”. By saying
that I am a “painter of the light” I want to emphasize
that for my expression and communication with the

observer I do not need the material world because
my fundamental topic – the painting motif – is the
light itself. And the role of the light is to trigger in the

observer the ability to activate the non-material. My
painting image plastically generates the color and the
light. It could also be said that it reflects the light,
or that the color appears in the form of a shadow.

In the early period of my creating I approached the
painting motif in a veristic manner. The scenes of
objects I was painting were connected with the

exposure to light and the light itself in several ways.

This period was followed by a gradual discarding
of the object painting motif. I discovered that the
light itself can be the object of my interest, and I

came to understand that the light in the painted
image is actually created by the painter himself.
That the light is the consequence of the painter’s

ability to experience and communicate the light.
In my paintings the light changed from something
that is merely “observed” to something “present”
and “active”. Something that enables my painting to
transfer the level of communication with the observer

to a non-object, abstract level.

J-H2-V, 2006 WOOD, PAINT 49.6X9X10.6 IN. | 126X23X27 CM.
K1 ROUND MIRROR, 2015 ACRYLIC, WAX ON CANVAS, WOOD (11 PANELS) 82.6X77.9X2.3 IN. | 210X198X6 CM.

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