Wie eine Landschaft
“Like a landscape”. Reflections on Stefan Osterider’s painting.
… The only thing which is obvious is that there is no transfer of concrete messages whatsoever. Depicting objects is definitely not the aim of the artist; what he is after is the depiction of abstract colour elements. It is these very shapes – which, due to their recurrent nature are also very subjective clues to the identity of the artist himself – that now form the actual motifs […]
Ulrich Mellitzer, Katalog, St.Johann/Tirol, 1995