Eberhard Ross lives and works between Mülheim and Frankfurt. He describes how “the original source of my work is nature, and its rhythms and patterns... I hear colours breathing and watch their sounds. A second important base of my works is Zen Buddhism, which I practice for many years. A further basic task which I try to realize with my works is expressed best in a quote by Agnes Martin, the wonderful Canadian painter. She once said “when I think of art I think of beauty - beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds is awareness of perfection. All art work is about beauty"."
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"It’s a resonant relationship between me and the colours.”
In Ross' abstract Speicher, White Writing, Black Writing, and Fermata paintings, he painstakingly covers canvases with calligraphic networks of lines and patterns that develop organically and repetitively. Layers of colour create a glowing effect on the canvas. For Ross, painting is a meditative process. He writes: “For me, colours are sounding. I look at colours and they sound back. It’s a resonant relationship between me and the colours.” -
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Painting Nature
Ross is fascinated by patterns and rhythms in nature, like the spiral forms of shells, leaves, butterfly wings, and plant cells. As He tries to interpret the natural lines and sequences found in nature, he is also exploring how the tones and hues of colour are affected by the mark-making. In his “Flight” works, Ross has taken film footage of the gathering of thousands of starlings as they fly across Northern Germany. His "Flight" paintings are a snapshot of a moment in a flocking of starlings.
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Publications
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listening to colours, watching sounds
This book explores the artist's recent paintings and the relationship between music and colour in Ross' work. It includes an introductory essay by Lothar Lenz (in both German and English),... -
refugium
'Eberhard Ross subsumes both prominent pieces as well as entire work series of recent years fittingly under the title Refugium.' -Pierre Mattern This catalogue was published in an edition of...
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