Imagination Becomes Reality. Part 2: Painting Surface Space

Imagination Becomes Reality is the catalogue for an exhibition cycle at the renowned Goetz Collection, conceived and planned by Ingvild Goetz to present visitors with a selection of the wide variety of forms and techniques in use by contemporary painters. Painting Surface Space, the second of five books that bring the series to viewers not within visiting distance, focuses on the ways architecture and space are rendered in contemporary art, and the ways electronic media, photography, film and computer simulations, in expanding the means we can employ to design and visualize space, have influenced painting. This interaction of media, ultimately almost always in connection with our state of mind, or with space as a metaphor for such an existential orientation, is at the heart of the juxtapositions this exhibition presents. Thus Painting Surface Space taps into space and architecture in the context of the development of painting as a medium.