(Klagenfurt 1929–2023 Rechberg)
Untitled, c. 1980, signed Hollegha, oil on canvas, 80 x 104 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private Collection, Salzburg

The decisively-applied colour stain on the primed, white surface,
the pouring of paint in the manner just described,
flowing, blurring the edges, stopping the flow of runs,
intensifying the flowing and blurring on the side,
densification through dark earth tones and blue elements tending to black,
glowing patches of colour, sinking into themselves,
diluted, transparently-applied, overlapping shapes,
moments of wondrous symbiosis between blue-black, manganese blue, orange and English red against the white background,
heated stripes of orange, cadmium red and cadmium yel-low, liquefying and battling viscous, dark chunks,
containment and eruption, bondage and liberation,
moving particles sucked into the vortex, struggling against the current,
dark red and green elementary particles from the micro-and macro-areas, striving towards the light,
glistening red lava and dark encrustations from cooled-down meteorites,
cosmic cataclysms and birth pangs of new stars,
existential struggle between light and darkness,
decay and cyclical new beginning.

Götz Pochat
Wolfgang Hollegha: Born to See. Nature is Within. The Painter Wolfgang Hollegha, Neue Galerie Graz, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2015