Charlotte Kowollik, Celle
"The color blue in all its nuances and numerous modes of action is the preferred color of the series of paintings Magic Landscapes. The light and color of the sea and the sky, painted from a wide variety of angles and with almost poetic flair. They are matter-of-fact, clear compositions of visualized memories of the artist's places of longing.
In his paintings he passes on these associative spaces to the viewer, bringing to life in him individual, long-buried emotions and memories.
These are pictures that reduce reality to a construction just before abstraction. Through his sensitive, differentiated painting style, as well as a subtle visual language, the painter creates an atmosphere in his works that signals to the viewer that these are inner images without compulsion for meaning, but with numerous possibilities for interpretation.
He likes to mix acrylic with different pigments, pastes, sand, earth or other materials, which creates a special depth effect that allows the viewer to look into infinite expanses. The play of brightness and shadow on the textured canvas changes color impressions and light temperature. The image appears more alive. These pictures caress the soul, carry off into other worlds, give impulses and fascinate.
In the picture series New Ways Peter Stahr also goes new ways in his painting. It is about the artistic confrontation with new themes and painterly possibilities, and reflects and visualizes multilayered feelings such as future - or present fears, even feelings of loneliness. In the permanent interplay of colors, the constant struggle with the subject and the material to make the hidden visible becomes palpable. It is a painting delicate in color, but dramatic in effect, through which even complex contents such as depth and movement are represented. The longer we look, the more we are animated to become creative ourselves, to let our own hidden feelings come alive in dialogue with the picture."