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LIGHT AND LADDER XIII, 2021 WOOD, PAINT, WAX, SILVER-PLATED OBJECT 53X7.5X2 IN. | 135X19.3X5,5 CM.
ART AND ARTISTS
LIGHT AND LADDER XI, 2021 WOOD, PAINT, WAX, SILVER-PLATED OBJECT 55.9X2.3X2.3 IN. | 142X6X6 CM.

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

In the past tradition of painting, only the frontal parts of paintings light itself is the central motif of painting exploration. In my luminous
were always the carriers of the content. I broke this millennial painting objects, however, I do not depict light, but create it. It is
tradition and focused my attention on applying colour onto the an actual, present light that communicates with the observer as a
edges and the back of the painting. These parts of my painting living, dynamic part of the artistic message. In the series of fourteen
compositions are hidden from the viewer's eye and are visible only images entitled Light and Ladder and created in 2021, I add one or
indirectly – as reflections of the paint reflecting onto the wall area, more ladders to the full-wood painting objects, which have been
addressing the viewer with their immaterial presence. In the paintings woven from a single piece of silver-plated wire. The ladder is for
of past periods, light is depicted in paintings only indirectly - as an the viewer's mind and the light is for the their soul. The first
"illuminator" of the depicted objects of the painting motif. For me, ascends, the other glows.

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