The search
At first, Saemisch focuses on depicting human figures and their emotions, and then shifts his attention to natural landscapes and urban scenarios. In these later works, surroundings themselves acquire more prominence as silent witnesses of history and subjective manifestations of human experiences. During this period, Saemisch explores abstraction, gradually decomposing visual elements and deepening into the essence of objects, while examining the interaction between light, color, and texture.
His deserted landscapes evoke solitude, nostalgia, and abandonment. For him, nature is also an expression of the human condition and it responds to the observer’s subjectivity. The artist believes that, far from being indifferent, the landscape is sensitive, and responds to the human gaze with a language of its own.
The space between the representation of reality in figurative painting and abstract painting stands for an opening, a legitimate opening that has always existed in art as well as in life.
The essence of the space that I am talking about always allows for a renewed exploration that changes with the spirit of the times.
ERNST SAEMISCH