In 1971 I attended a technical college for art & design. In the following years, I exercised myself intensively with the free painting. Not only working the basics and developing my skilled-labour ability, but rather also increasing my understanding of the art historical connections regarding the old and contemporary painting.
Just arriving into the 1970's, a period that presented itself an outspoken abundance of directions and styles in all art branches I came to settle better into my direction after much exploration and experimentation.
I was so absorbed - as the rest of my fellow students - we were all like a sponge absorbing what emerged as new trends and directions. I found great pleasure in my studies as my fellow students and I prepared over our art - to discuss and debate the differences we observed between our paintings and other's image techniques. Often the sense of the chalkboard picture was exercised as many new developing artists moved in growing numbers into the workrooms of our new media.
Video became popular as a tool for its capabilities of new discoveries. This led me into some distraction, because it disturbed the primary painting exercises prescribed to me. Also my love for music played a major role in my life.
In the first years, my paintings were influenced by surrealism and esoteric art. Later I searched for new ways to develop and experiment structure pictures, in which I used sand and lacquer as new materials for my working process. Also my focus was less a firm picture idea, but rather a color structure emerging via stratification and overpainting. The experience resulting from that, in the contact with colors, and the expansive drive by overpainting, were at that time, for me, more important than the "finished" picture. more>>
Art of Christoph von Thüngen © 1970-2010 CHvTH
Show 1 : Structures + Abstract
Show 2 : Concret Painting
Show 3 : Journey Impressions
