German R.Fox (N.Streiber)   IWE STREIBER - Painting The canvas reclines on the floor and can get conceived, circumvented and handled from all sides. The Artist is applying the paint extensively with brush and spatula, to then smudge, scratch or paint over the just created. Surfacing shapes turn into design dominating elements that progressively gain their full meaning. Relief comes into being by a mixture of sand, oil, acrylic paint and other materials. Layer by layer the present is covering the past. Here and there colorful minute paint remains remind us of the part forms. This style of painting is imminent and spontaneous. Color fields, encrusted surfaces, cracks and structures that are drawn through relief arise slowly, in constant change and progressive determination without prior sketch or outlines and remain as visible traces of the innumerable interventions on the surface. Intense earth colors and sand structures are presenting themselves to us as parts of nature, raw and beautiful. The continuous concept of the work is the searching endeavour of the artist to feel and grasp the inner nature of things. To figuratively experience and depict anew what has always been present. It is the desire to visualize and bring life to the spirit that resides in every material through artistic form. The finished painting has grown through the innumerable transformations to a powerful force field, whose interpretation reserves itself for the intuitive understanding in which the meaning relates to the form like the inner to the outer.