I am creating free digital compositions which often started (years ago in the early beginning) with one or two photographs, which are then ‘worked out’ with more or less 100 steps of copying and pasting; maybe filterering, distorting, twisting, and/or change the perspective to make it more abstract, again colouring, setting brush strokes, perhaps lines; some ‘decoloring’; ‘recoloring’; stretching; detailed form and color changing; copying one art piece into another one; making it transparent; giving some contrast; sizing and resizing, etc., until the image is complete and not one of the original photographic pixels is left. They are associations of the world around us and its reflections - often a kind of fantastic situation where everything seems to make a new kind of sense. See http://galeriejalass.tripod.com
RadaЯ - Architectur & Art, Marco de Piaggi
The artist:
Immo Jalass is a German artist known in The Netherlands for his work at the end
of the sixties that culminated in an group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam in 1969.
In the new millennium, the artist has dedicated himself to computer art. After
replacing the easel with a computer monitor and the palette of oil colors with
digital graphics programs he is creating digital images that are printed in
only one certified copy on different media according with the practical and
aesthetic needs and demands. The images presented by the artist are imaginary
landscapes, abstract expanses or shots of cities that seem to be taken on
another planet.
The technique and the title of the exhibition:
Immo Jalass starts with free composition, photos or parts of photos, sometimes
photos of a city and details of buildings. In this sense he sometimes
"steals" images from the reality. Later on (in front of his
"digital canvas") he begins to treat the images, to distort them, to
cut them, to remove or add details, colors and elements from other photos or
god knows from where. This process of "mystification" of the reality
leads to the creation of an image that overtakes and goes beyond reality
itself.
The pictures:
In his bewildered landscapes Jalass captures the grandeur of the space between
the speed of light and the perpetual change and through the computer he freezes
and crystallizes this vision into an image that takes on aspects of meditation
and contemplation, or to put it in the words of the artist into "images
that rest in the movement”. The use of the computers is fundamental in this
process of crystallization of the speed and the change (or "carpe
diem"). Unlike canvas and oil paint the computer allows the creation and
variation of many images in a very fast speed. Jalass is always in search of
landscapes that contain or at least make you presume "totality": the
total image that can awake in the viewer associations of omnipresence
(ubiquity). The search for an image that contains and sustains all the images
is the goal of Jalass and even though this is, according to the artist, a
"a pure ideal impossible to realize" we remain with the “partial” images
- on show in the gallery Radar - as a documentation of a valuable artistic and
meditative research.
The concept:
According to Immo Jalass the "concept", "conceptual art",
"art without concept” ect. are scaffoldings often created due to the lack
of free and "primordial creativity”. On the other hand - says the artist -
culture creates these scaffoldings for the purpose of development. Between
these two extremes ("primordial creativity" and “cultural concept”)
there is the ultimate picture, the work of art.
Conceptual art in the seventies led to the definition of "everything is
art” and the same Jalass has played an active role in it with the project to
exhibit the family van Dijk at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Today Immo
Jalass is in search of total images that act as smart structures and are
opposed to found structures. The goal of Jalass is to create for the viewer
worlds of images of infinite vastness (through imaginary landscapes) that are
both exciting, eerie, inspiring, images that should therefore be seen as
"moments of eternity”.
Internet:www.radar-amsterdam.com