Einfallspinsel 5 (2024-2025) – gesso, acrylics & varnish on wood panel, with handmade frame: 94 x 134 x 6 cm
Above: Einfallspinsel 1 (2024) – gesso, acrylics & varnish on wood, diameter: 100 cm – artwork rotates freely
Below: Einfallspinsel 4 (2024) – gesso, acrylics and varnish on wood, diameter: 100 cm – artwork rotates freely
Einfallspinsel* – Growing Signs
When does a choreography of gestures become a sign? To which degree is a new symbol shaped by its writer, the tools, other media and already existing visual languages?
This series is built on a collection of newly generated calligraphic glyphs. The designs, once committed to the writer's muscle memory, are repetitively applied to different media, using a series of customised writing tools, in a visual process of evolution.
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The title of this series is a play on the German word “Einfaltspinsel,” which refers to an idiot, a simpleton. By switching just one letter (the T for an L), the meaning of the word changes radically: ”Einfall" (idea) and "Pinsel" (brush) together could be interpreted as a "brush for ideas", which hints at the idea of the writing tool as co-author of the new creation.