The Rock 2017

Eckart Hahn made this artwork called 'The Rock' and it is an accumulation of pasted photographs, tape and paint. I imagine Hahn had all these bits of paper lying around in the studio, and like a puzzle, he started arranging them, tearing them, and then assembling them. It feels like a really physical thing, like Hahn's wrestling with the landscape, trying to capture its essence. I wonder what Hahn was thinking when he decided to add that painterly blue tape? It's like he's trying to hold it all together, literally and figuratively. It makes me think about Kurt Schwitters and his collages made of found objects, or maybe even some of David Hockney’s photo collages where he also reconstructs an image. It reminds me that art is not just about representing the world but about how we see and experience it. It's a conversation, a dialogue between artists across time. Each generation builds on what came before, adding their own spin, their own perspective.