Johannes Kahrs references imagery culled from media such as photographs, video projections or film stills as a starting point of his paintings. He chooses fragments of images and further removes them from their source by shifting tones and leaving contours blurred to create a mysterious new reality while still referencing the original image.
“When actions become autistic they become visible, because they are isolated actions, like a language nobody speaks. You know, like a UFO, something strange and curious, which has landed somewhere, but you cannot make any sense of it –still you have this thing (image) representing nothing but itself. And I am interested in stories which break apart, when there is no more dialogue.” (J. Kahrs, Rencontres 3: Johannes Kahrs, Paris, 2000)
1995 Oil on canvas in artist’s metal and glass frame. 57 x 69 in. (144.8 x 175.3 cm). Signed, titled and dated “J. Kahrs ‘Eifer-Sucht’ 1995” on the reverse.