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René Faber’s works deal with the balance of a composition between selected shades of colour and their relation with the total colour of a painting.
The artist places colours in a particular context – beside each other and with regard to the entire composition – until the paintings gain a specific rhythm. Shades of colour and tonal shades are repeated, sometimes following a transparent rule, sometimes leaving the repetitive structure. The fine differences of the particular shades of colour and the tonal variations create a balance between related and repelling colour-identities. Purer identities, like a deep red contrast with colours containing grey. Nonetheless, grey is always thought of as a colour, in which the totality of colours comes together.
The compositions are formally structured with squares and rectangles, which serve as neutral forms and do not refer to anything outside the painting. They serve as an autonomous place for colour.
In the process of painting a grid is created, which is built up in multiple layers on the grounding. René Faber understands his paintings as body of colour, which does not only contain the application, but also the repeated removal of colour. With this technique the archaeology of the layers of the painting process is undiscovered. Wherever colour has been taken away with the painting knife, older layers come to the surface. Additionally, the painting process is visible on the edges of the painting and where the squares of colour meet. The painting reflects the process of painting as such.
The material character of paint as the medium of colour also plays a central role. The surface of the painting varies between covering and transparent colours, which results in an observing process meandering between a blocked and open sight. The traces of painting dominate the works, opening to the observer an intimate experience with his/her own perception.
René Faber reflects questions concerning the relations between measure and weight of colour and form. His works rest in the state of a dynamic balance.
Bettina Friedli
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