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ReDoART - Art from Munich, Germany

Pop-Artist ReDo with alias udO reiN chooses fiction, fantasy, moments of life, and personal memories to create his pop-art paintings.

Background information about the artwork of Udo Rein (ReDo)

The speciality of this pop-artist from Munich (Germany) lies not only in the carved up order of the photographic motifs but also in the high differentiation of the coloured surfaces. Udo Rein puts different layers of paint over each other. They overlap in parts. The transparency allows the layers beneath to shimmer through, burst out, pearl away from each other and mix with each other again.

Right from the undercoat acrylic and oil colours are mixed. They combine with each other at times, separate at others and thus give the effect of bursting out from one another. Over these lie sketches and collages of found materials, as well as lines of text, which emerge from the tangle of the surfaces and then disappear again like ideas from the depth of the unconscious.

All these layers are finally sealed with a coat of yacht varnish or lacquer, which let the colours glow like those of a glossy magazine. The bar code in the picture's below right corner is an expression of cheap mass goods and replaces the signature of the artist.

I'll be your mirror

When I begin at the surface, looking and taking my time, I can dip into many stories.

Suddenly the picture has the effect of a mirror, with its smooth, shiny surface. A mirror that speaks to me. It tells stories from my life in pictures. A mirror that speaks to me of my life and offers me pictures which I, in my superficiality, all too often overlook in my everyday life.

I can see my soul in the depths of the mirror picture. I try to defend myself and think that here, again, an artist has put too much biographical detail onto a panel.

However, my feelings take over and my thinking becomes friendlier, clearer. I become indifferent to the world of the artist.

Quotes from an essay of Christian Jacobs (Munich 2006)

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