agens silent VI

The series "agens" (Latin: the driving force) is divided into two groups: the artist calls the technique already described "agens silent", to be equated with something like "silent urging". Another is called "agens particular", here Bernhard Paul extends the "agens silent" technique by composing surfaces in the manner mentioned, which are then refined by individual brushstrokes. The effect is phenomenal: the washed-out, fine-surface background and the color particles that have now been added stand for two completely different dimensions: it seems as if you are sitting in a train and watching raindrops on a window pane, while the landscape rushing by blurs in the background. Here you can understand how Paul thinks about "space notation": he defines two completely different spaces - the inside and the outside. What in Winbeck's work outwardly operates as a sound surface stretched out by long tones, on closer listening turns out to be a color unity of many instruments shimmering with wild tonal cascades. With Bernhard Paul it is the inner, lively blurring that nevertheless functions as a surface and now, with individual color moments applied to the outside, gives the room another dimension.