Richard Rendl
About my work:
The abstract art that was omnipresent when I began my studies in 1966/68 seemed inadequate to me in all its forms. I was longing for a formal language that would make it possible to express complex contexts of meaning, and "abstract" art was incapable of this.
My aspiration was to understand content not merely as a symbolic, analogous superstructure, but to deduce content from the formal elements themselves and to generate a syntax for this.
My intervention back then was an anticipation of digitalization, namely from the singularity of the "Monad - Molon" to develop complex systems, a visual language, a web of interconnectedness, which was later expanded with line structures, number symbolism, geometries, symmetry patterns, oscillation figures and color symbolism, thereby gaining plausibility.
Here I refer explicitly to the descriptions of matter in the new physics as a relational structure and not as an object-like something; according to Alfred North Whitehead, matter is not composed of substances, object-like, passive matter, but of elementary interlocking and interwoven processes and relations.
" Rendl´s work shows the structural reality of the world,
in whose movement form emerges but ephemerally, not unlike the foam of
breaking billows. And yet, this foaming form is a necessary aspect of
all transience."
Burghart Schmidt
" ...these displays are as pure as waterfalls of love".
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