Dissonanzen c. 1927

Karl Wiener made this unnamed watercolour – Dissonanzen – with plenty of clashing, saturated colours and bold, dark shapes that seem to swim and shift. Artmaking, for me, is all about finding the right rhythm. I love the way Wiener lays down these transparent layers, letting the paper shine through. It feels raw, immediate, like he’s wrestling with the colours, trying to make them sing together even when they fight. See that little patch of scribbled hatching over there, near the top? It's like a tiny, agitated storm. The colours and shapes seem barely contained, as if they might burst apart any minute. It reminds me a little of Kandinsky's early abstractions, that same push and pull between chaos and harmony, where meaning isn’t fixed but always in motion. Ultimately, art is a conversation across time, where each artist adds their voice to the mix, embracing ambiguity over easy answers.