Cosmos
The Deepest Freedom
With the Cosmos series, which defines his final creative phase, Saemisch deepens his liberation from established aesthetic conventions. Lines and colors become subtle and organic, merging in a rhythm of transparencies. The pictorial elements, now blurred and diffuse, expand mirroring the expansion of the universe in space.
On December 17, 1984, Saemisch’s life is cut short while he is still working on his final paintings, in which he seeks what he describes as the path to the “deepest of freedoms.” This last series represents not only the culmination of his artistic journey but also a clear testament to the spiritual nature of his formal evolution, expressed through the language of art.
I could not advance because I was tied to an aesthetic formulation. I limited myself to certain codes, and I did not have the courage or the strength to jump into an uncertainty touched by the grace of madness […] I didn’t have to look for new forms, only new rhythms, in the music of madness. To elevate above oneself, to go beyond ones boundaries, who knows where to […]
ERNST SAEMISCH
I tried to visibly show the power of life, the intensity of crystals, the energy of fire, while being always aware that we breathe in the immense space of the cosmos.
ERNST SAEMISCH