Nicola Staeglich

In the "Liquid Lights" series of works and with her choice of a new medium, Nicola Staeglich focuses on light and colour as the media that determine the essence of her painting. But unlike her transparent paintings on acrylic glass, a translucent matt polyester paper serves as the picture support for the "Liquid Lights". This film allows for a highly brilliant colour effect in which the paint merges with the matt surface to form a body of coloured light. At the same time, the specific performative action of Staeglich's painting presents itself as an autonomous and ritual mimesis. The often multiple overlapping of the layers of paper and thus the layers of painting is also represented in the visible overlapping at the edges of the picture field and forms a legible and co-determining factor of the overall composite. Nicola Staeglich's "Liquid Lights" fascinate the viewer with their translucent lightness of material and colour, and at the same time they confront the viewer with their sensual physicality through the layers of their gently bulging foils.