Fine Art Magazine - March 2018

Ingo’s technique is unusual – even unique. He never touches the canvas directly with any tool, but pours the paint freehand onto a horizontal canvas creating denser and denser lines until finally the details emerge. Gravity and the flowing paint form the connection between his hand and the canvas in place of a brush – a ‘fluid tool’. Once drawn no line can be corrected and with exceptional coordination the artist turns the challenge of control into a liberating process. This tension between the visual grid of our world’s most renowned buildings and the liquid flow of the line gives Ingo’s work a distinct vitality. The poured lines intertwine, widen, narrow, and as the outline emerges onto large-scale canvases it finally reveals a mesh of intricate detail that defines our’ cities familiar constructs of brick and stone, glass and steel. Born in Germany but now living in London, Ingo has been at the forefront of contemporary architectural studies in paint since the early 1990s, and both his art and his architecture are world renowned. Over the past 22 years he has realised numerous art projects within Germany, Britain, South Africa, Australia and French Polynesia which have led to successful realisations in the United Kingdom, United Arabic Emirates and Saudi Arabia. His artwork is on display in Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as across the UK and Europe. 41 ABSTRACT INTERPRETATIONS INGO