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expression, walked a few steps ahead of the His mosaic style of painting could be explained
vogue. From that moment on, his illustrated publicly by Rien in 1993 during an interview on
observations, which were based on objective the regional television channel, which might
social criticism, have become exceptionally have shown other artists a new manner of
intriguing, sometimes even ambiguous. See abstraction within realism.
‘shooting smokers’.
Due to physical disability Rien Vörgers now
By experimenting with all kinds of different lives like a hermit. However, he got to know
sizes of colored cardboard pieces, he initiated how society works throughout his long active
a method of creating images, consisting of life within the world of glass building. He also
forms that appear transparent on the surface, acquired wisdom, thru advice to architects and
are yet painted next to each other, but look construction companies on how to use colors
as if they overlap. In progressive photography on the outside of their buildings. His warm
images can indeed overlap each other, but attachment to advancing mankind’s future in a
that became in vogue at least a decade later. positive sense, would encourage observers of
No one has as yet clearly understood how his pictures to think about the background of
Rien came to the astounding production of what is shown in the foreground, and remains
this kind of art. his main source of energy. The tree with
branches designed like barriers: a tree offers
Remarkable is his gift of finding harmonious shelter, but everybody sees him/herself once in
tones, exactly matching each other within a while standing before a barrier. See ‘Barrier’.
the sometimes more than twenty colors of
a painting. Every single one takes him hours Although his painstaking way of painting
to mix for the use of just one painting. That’s requires much time, in the last thirty years,
how he makes every image a coherent and Rien’s mosaic styled paintings amount to
expressive novel of its own. more than 300.
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