Mikroskopische Landkarte
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Abstract |
| Technique | Painting – Acrylic on Canvas |
| Height | 40 cm |
| Width | 30 cm |
| Length/Depth | 2 cm |
Medium:
Acrylic on canvas
This is not a bird’s-eye view of the macro world, but an inward exploration. I translate the fragmented play of light within the space, the curves of the wave movements and the detached rhizomes of the plants into a series of ‘microscopic maps’.
In these maps, the boundaries of the colours form the territories and the flowing lines represent the longitudes and latitudes. I have erased the specific coordinates and narratives; what remains are the visual traces of ‘existence’. They do not mark a physical location, but rather the path along which the light danced across the window frame at a particular moment, or the depth with which the cold rain penetrated the first green shoots of spring.
Cong Cong
Born in Dalian, China
Living and studying in Karlsruhe, Germany
He has been studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe since 2021.
In Leni Hoffmann’s class, currently in his seventh semester.
Structure, content and the freedom of the imagination I prefer to use collage, combining different levels of saturation and colour nuances to make space visible. For me, painting means constructing structures, filling them with content and engaging in a continuous creative process. I use lines to break up large areas of colour and seek that one, captured moment in the tension between balance and imbalance.
It is precisely the simplicity of these colour fields and the reduction of colour that open up a vast space for the viewer’s own imagination. When the canvas is no longer overloaded with representational details, it transforms into an ‘open vessel’. These visual voids are like half-open doors, inviting the viewer to step inside with their own memories and emotions. As the picture does not dictate a definitive answer, it becomes an individual reflection of time, space and emotion for each person.
Scholarship
Scholarship for gifted international students
Exhibitions
2024 >>A real Z<< at Bulacher Kreuz, Karlsruhe, Germany
2023 Galerie Klüber, group exhibition, WEINHEIM, Germany
2023 Summer Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
2023 “Gone to see a man about a dog”, group exhibition at Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 “Nobody asked for it”. Joint exhibition, Kassel, Germany
2022 Summer Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 “Un prezzolino da ciclo”, “144=441”, Wuppertal, Germany
2022 “Art Karlsruhe”, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 “Art North”, Copenhagen, Denmark
Other artworks by the artist
