THE PUBLICATION “ACHT”

At the age of 17, I didn’t really know it yet, but I experienced the rhythm of applying colors intensely for the first time. In my mid-20s, I realized that rhythm gives form to the application of color.

Platschek uses the terms “representational art” and “identifiable entities” to describe the most important opponent of a painter, Cézanne called it “literature”, I call it: the image, in the sense of an imaginary image, a likeness, an image.

The rhythm brings out the primary qualities of painting. If the rhythm of the color on the surface is right, the painting is right. I have paint and a surface in front of me. I put the paint on the surface and get 1,2, or 8. I paint until I beat the surface!

I apply the smallest size of paint to a surface and get one, I apply the largest and get eight. Numbers do not lie.

O L E K S I Y
K O V A L
A C H T

German / English
251 x 155 mm
108 pages

This publication was generously supported by:

ArsVersa Kunst-Stiftung, Freiburg
Kastner AG, Wolnzach

I thank Steve Coleman, Simon Eastwood, Daniel Geiger, Hans R. Heitmann, Eduard Kastner, Oleksandr Koval, Bernhard Lypp, Volker Möllenhof, Selima Niggl, Thomas Rieger, Alina Sokulska, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright for their precious collaboration in the making of this publication.

Design: Oleksandr Koval, together with design studio Koval

Text: Steve Coleman, Oleksiy Koval, Selima Niggl, Alina Sokulska

Translation: Simon Eastwood, Oleksiy Koval, Michael Wright

Printing: Kastner AG

© 2023 Oleksiy Koval and Kastner AG
ISBN 978-3-948677-04-6