Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner, since then private collection Southern Germany.

Christian Wulffen’s interest is the theoretical processing of information, in particular the relationship between visual perception and analytical decoding, which leads to an infinite scope of interpretation. Based on a mostly non-representational formal and material language, his work can be defined as Concrete Art, which is neither abstracted nor figurative and laden with symbolic meaning, but stands for what is tangibly present. His painting includes, therefore, geometric compositions, which according to the principles of Concrete Art, are flat, visually straightforward and characterised by clear lines.

The work offered here at auction entitled “Farbe” (colour) dates from 1985, when Christian Wulffen was still studying at the State Academy for Fine Art in Stuttgart. This therefore is an early example of his examination of the compositional effect of the colour spectrum: although the mint-green, anthracite grey and red-orange surfaces are separated from each other with clear lines, there is a relationship of tension, ranging from balance to dynamism. This is the product of a creative and yet rationally planned use of the potential of many kinds of subjective impressions.

Christian Wulffen’s works are present in the Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen and shown in many solo and group exhibitions. Alongside his artistic activities, Christian Wulffen has for almost 25 years been engaged academically with questions of data processing. He is currently professor of Sculpture & Expanded Media at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio.