Christian Stock: Red cube painting

Since 1983, Christian Stock paints monochrome images in amazing perseverance. Pictures that are also sculptures. However, these "mixed forms" are by no means complex or sprawling image-space constructions, with which a painter tries to get from the second to the third dimension, but to clear, compact, monochrome color bodies, which are already on The second glance reveals the reason for their double character: Christian Stock has allowed her to develop in the painting itself, that is, solely from color by "layering" it layer by layer on a square canvas.
The process as such is, in the first instance, a perfectly conventional act of painting: color is applied uniformly, without any emphasis on a personal brush handwriting, without a "print" on a canvas. It is only the permanent repetition of such a pictorial normal event that gradually causes these image mounds and pyramids to grow and become the basis of this remarkable concept, and we must admit that the results are not simply gouting, but are solved as soon as possible Concept of this strange and seemingly laborious manufacturing method developed a whole lot of questions.