WALDEMAR MATTIS-TEUTSCH

ArtistWaldemar MATTIS-TEUTSCH: Stairs (2019)

Waldemar MATTIS-TEUTSCH

We need the mind of a scientist, the heart of a poet, and the eyes of a painter.

Stairs (2019)

Zscape reflection hologram

The self-revealing and eye-deceiving duality of holograms means that they convey visual experiences that cannot be represented by reproductive means and which require binocular vision. The illumination and angle of incidence of the light rays are the essence of the experience of these representations, which evoke the sensation of masses emerging from the plane. The medium itself denotes an imaging process, invented by the Hungarian-born British physicist Dennis Gabor, based on the wave nature of light. By capturing a given interference pattern on a physical medium, a perfect three-dimensional image of the structure of the object that an image is to be made of is created. There are several types of holograms, the two most common being reflection (front-illuminated) and transmission (back illuminated).
The artist’s reflection hologram, made in collaboration with the Zeba Company, is not representational in nature, but rather an abstract illusion, the title of which, like Mattis-Teutsch’s other works, is given solely by its resemblance to an existing object. The composition captures a dynamic experience of space, which, unlike kinetic art, is not based on the idea of movement in space, but on the concept of space in motion. The narrative of the viewer’s dialogue with the image is provided by the actual position of distances and angles of vision. The surface of the image, which straddles the boundary between appearance and reality, creates a threshold situation that is not crossed, while the message encoded in the virtual space remains hidden from the viewer.

Waldemár Mattis-Teutsch (1950, Sfântu Gheorghe) is a Transylvanian painter and mosaic designer who first became acquainted with holographic imagery in 1993 in Switzerland. In 1995, he set up a holographic laboratory for artistic purposes in Brasov and, in collaboration with various companies, began experimenting with a wide variety of techniques of the medium (pixel, reflection, and transmission rainbow holograms). Continuing the legacy of his father, the lyrical abstract painter and sculptor János Mattis-Teutsch, a member of the first generation of the Hungarian avant-garde, Waldemar developed a post-media painting based on a programme of concrete and abstract geometric art, which in accordance with the artist’s creative credo, encourages us to believe that an image is not eternal through its understanding, but rather through its experience.

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