Museum Raum 02
Klaus G. Gaida: ABENDMAHL, 2005
Klaus G. Gaida, ABENDMAHL, 2005,
Naturfarben auf Leinwand, auf Holzrahmen gespannt, 140x180 cm , KULTUMdepot Graz, aus: Klaus G. Gaida: Es fünf aber die (2007)
Klaus G. Gaida: LAST SUPPER, 2005
Reduced and simplified, the Last Supper created by the German-Belgian artist Klaus G. Gaida is nevertheless unfolding on multiple dynamic pictorial planes. A lonesome figure is presented in front of a table diagonally from above. It is elaborated in stylized coloring and design, with blue, auburn and yellowish white on natural shades and a line that reminds of the airbrush tool of digital drawing Apparently, any loud and graphic presence is avoided to make room for the plane of imagination with regard to this table, for the gesture of invitation, the expansive view of the contoured figure, the clearly marked but nonetheless not exactly defined grasp for the center. It invites us to contemplate and to come to our senses. The auburn surface is shifted, or rather folded, into the picture from the left, which marks residual motion. Under the table, the gray color of the surface, a pictorial plane obviously lying underneath, is stabilized in the center by both delicate and dynamic gray lines: The count of lines gives twelve. Any immediate visual correlation between the viewer of the picture and one of the disciples is thus suspended; at the same time, an imaginary continuation of the count is left open as a possibility. Moreover, the dynamic count of lines makes sure that there is no hierarchy but equality of all before the master sitting at the table.
Text aus | Text from: Johannes Rauchenberger: Gott hat kein Museum. Religion in der Kunst des beginnenden XXI. Jahrhunderts. | No Museum Has God. Religion in Art in the Early 21st Century. (IKON. Bild+Theologie, hg. von | ed. by Alex Stock und Reinhard Hoeps), Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, Paderborn 2015, S. | p. 326-327.