Overgrown
1993, 70 x 60 cm
Traffic Retreat: Günther Hauschildt, Painter
To this group of works belong objects made by man, parked and long forgotten, mostly trams, but also car wrecks. The effect of time has wounded them and given way to being overgrown by grass, weeds and undergrowth. Thus, the main focus lies on the problem of transience, the process of life and death, of being and not-being. We find the objects in a stadium of barely existing and not existing any more.
The process of ageing is represented not in a melancholy veiled way, but rather cheerfully and serene. These rusty, bumped, exhausted resting things are on the way back to nature. However, this process is in Hauschildt‘s pictures not so much shown as a natural, but as an aesthetic process. Rusting sheet metal is blooming in light. Rot, decay and mould are weaved in purple aubergine coloured tones, in burned umber and sulphur yellow and shades of brown variety.
Driving into the Green (2)
2005, 30 x 24 cm
Driving into the Green (1)
2004, 30 x 24 cm
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