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ART AND ARTISTS O-2, 2018 WOODEN CONSTRUCTION, ACRYLIC AND OIL COLOR, WAX 57X25.5X2.7 IN. | 145X65X7 CM.

         THE SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE “AMBIENCE OF THE LIGHT OF SHADOWS” IN THE FORMER
         MINORITE CHURCH, MARIBOR, 2018 









                                   OTO RIMELE
                                   Lives and works in Maribor, Slovenia
                                   http://www.otorimele.com


                                                                                           Oto Rimele is a painter,
                                                                                           an author of spatial-
                                                                                           acoustic ambiences, a
                                                                                           researcher of mental
                                                                                           dimensions of the visual
                                                                                           expression and sound.
                                                                                           His final motif is light
                                                                                           itself and the mental-
                                                                                           sublime reality in the
                                                                                           sense of exploring the
                                                                                           optical and painting
                                                                                           reality of the medium of
                                                                                           expression. The painter
                                                                                           describes his attitude
                                                                                           to light in the following
                                                                                           words: “…this is why I
                                                                                           don’t depict light in my
                                                                                           paintings, but I directly
                                                                                           activate it as the literal
                                                                                           sensory presence”. His
                                                                                           painting images (painting
                                                                                           objects) are three
                                                                                           dimensional and allow
                                                                                           for the color to reflect
                                                                                           onto the wall, so that
                                                                                           the observer can see its
                                                                                           non-material reflection
                                                                                           in the shape of cultured
                                                                                           Light and as a non-
                                                                                           material connection.














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