On december the 30th, you can meet the artist at 6:00 pm.

 

Splash. Swimming Pool. Associations of pop art arise, of Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, also Hockney. But unlike these famous artists of the 60s. Klaus Walter is not interested in glamour and chic, but in banal ordinariness. His pictures show clippings of a totally normal bathing situation- as arbitrarily chosen as a beholder would perceive the scene in passing. There is no unified perspective, just a shattered perception, which translates a kind of time-sequence into the picture. The artist involves the beholder into a quasi-cinematic situation but by the gaps he leaves room for free imagination. With Walter the artistic idea is closely connected with the choice of material. The artist uses self-adhesive foil and light boxes from the advertisement industry. With a casual gesture and gentle irony he encourages affective states of mind, as they are created in advertising, in the aesthetics of consumer goods and in Comics. This world of effects is forced up even more, because Walter exhausts sufficiently known complementary contrasts to pungency and lets the colours explode. Against passing and the wish to keep hold on the moments of life, Klaus Walter's luminous pictures maintain a sensuous presence in which duration is not needed, because there is also no disappearance.

Annie Bardon, November 2004
translation: Susanne Burmester