Synchronizing Systems

Synchronizing Systems

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Henning Eichinger has consciously reflected our digital era in his images and yet has chosen to refrain from employing any computer-generated working methods. None of his images emerge on any monitor or screen. His work is analogue in every respect. That, in itself, is quite a statement. With his complex yet sensual painting and the diverse motifs of his repertoire located over various pictorial levels, he counterposes our image-informed world with somehow surreal pictorial spaces. One fancies oneself in a sunken city here, on another planet there or perhaps, at times, in a futuristic cityscape akin to a science fiction film. Eichinger composes his pictures by imperceptibly varying disparate elements from various pictorial levels of depth and re-arranging them – placing them in new levels, superimposing or exposing them. In music, one would speak of sampling; in the visual arts one speaks of collage. Eichinger employs this method – one comprised of classically artisanal techniques – with great partiality as a fundamental principle, according to which, certainly, his collages but also his oil paintings are produced.

Dr. Karin Rase