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The cycle "Domseelen" (engl. cathedral souls) consist of 24 mystical-surreal illustrated motifs as giclee prints (highest quality pigment prints) on 300g/m2 fine art baryta paper in original format fitted on 4mm AluDibond-plates, small edition of 20, numbered and signed on the backside by the artist, no frame. Different formats of the 24 from 100cm to 160cm picture height. The giclée are taken from oil paintings (2016-2018) on wood and canvas in the same format respectively. The paintings are characterized by their unique flowing painting style and a mystical nature, open for its interpretation. Since 2019 and ongoing the cycle is shown in temporary exhibitions in Germany and Netherlands. Mystical background to the work: Metamorphosis, visible and yet mysterious transformation of things and beings, exists in geology, botany, zoology, music and mythology etc. In visual arts it is found explicitly, if one disregards concrete pictorial stories, in the surreal. From models - surfaces (frottages, photographs), dreams, visions, etc. - details or figures are taken and brought into a new modified form. A new context of meaning can emerge. The model, e.g., a piece of the marble cladding in the Aachen Cathedral, has itself already moved far away from its origin in millions of years through manifold natural or cosmological metamorphosis. Through human hands - uncovering, cutting, polishing and changing its location - it has changed its shape further. Through the church as a sacred place, the object loses it‘s anonymity, it becomes aware of itself, and so it reveals itself as a vision. It becomes spiritual reality and thus points to its immaterial origin - the meaning, its creator.

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The cycle "Domseelen" (engl. cathedral souls) consist of 24 mystical-surreal illustrated motifs as giclee prints (highest quality pigment prints) on 300g/m2 fine art baryta paper in original format fitted on 4mm AluDibond-plates, small edition of 20, numbered and signed on the backside by the artist...

The cycle "Domseelen" (engl. cathedral souls) consist of 24 mystical-surreal illustrated motifs as giclee prints (highest quality pigment prints) on 300g/m2 fine art baryta paper in original format fitted on 4mm AluDibond-plates, small edition of 20, numbered and signed on the backside by the artist, no frame. Different formats of the 24 from 100cm to 160cm picture height. The giclée are taken from oil paintings (2016-2018) on wood and canvas in the same format respectively. The paintings are characterized by their unique flowing painting style and a mystical nature, open for its interpretation. Since 2019 and ongoing the cycle is shown in temporary exhibitions in Germany and Netherlands.
Mystical background to the work: Metamorphosis, visible and yet mysterious transformation of things and beings, exists in geology, botany, zoology, music and mythology etc. In visual arts it is found explicitly, if one disregards concrete pictorial stories, in the surreal. From models - surfaces (frottages, photographs), dreams, visions, etc. - details or figures are taken and brought into a new modified form. A new context of meaning can emerge. The model, e.g., a piece of the marble cladding in the Aachen Cathedral, has itself already moved far away from its origin in millions of years through manifold natural or cosmological metamorphosis. Through human hands - uncovering, cutting, polishing and changing its location - it has changed its shape further. Through the church as a sacred place, the object loses it‘s anonymity, it becomes aware of itself, and so it reveals itself as a vision. It becomes spiritual reality and thus points to its immaterial origin - the meaning, its creator.

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Roger Nyssen is freelance artist at ATELIER-ROGER, Belgian, born in Aachen (GE) in 1953, working in Dormagen near Düsseldorf (GE). Oil painting in large formats and traditional graphic arts like colour woodcut and etching take centre stage in my work. Artistic approach: Against the background of my...

Roger Nyssen is freelance artist at ATELIER-ROGER, Belgian, born in Aachen (GE) in 1953, working in Dormagen near Düsseldorf (GE). Oil painting in large formats and traditional graphic arts like colour woodcut and etching take centre stage in my work. Artistic approach: Against the background of my life experience and in my Christian conviction, I know about the fallacy of being able to explain our world with physical-mathematical knowledge alone. Perhaps the search for explanations is the wrong way to understand, perhaps it needs awareness and other forms of communication with the material world? As a painter, I search for the apparent reality, the consciousness of matter and its hidden stories, as well as new forms of expression. The cycle "Domseelen", painted in 2016 to 2018, results from searching hidden stories in the marbles of Aachen Cathedral. Apparent reality may also appear through human images in the light of mystic places (series “Filitosa”). As the painter I often like to place the result in a mythological context, a provocative contradiction to the ambiguity of the source and the image. But how can we be sure what is true and what is not?’

In my graphic arts the painterly processing of the printing stick (Aquatint and Mezzotint in etching, so called “Lost Cut” in woodcut) open great artistic freedom. Accordingly, the papers, as they are only subtracted by me in small runs, are to be seen as unique.

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