Liliane Tomasko: second nature

The theme of dreaming is nothing new in Tomasko's work. The realisation is based on coloured lines that intertwine, become knots and form free structures, as it were. The colours vary from the darkness of night to light-flooded tones - borrowed from the sunny garden. The colour blue as a connecting element stands for the garden, the view of the sky, but also for the dream, the night, the sinking into deep sleep.

Tomasko's abstract world is like an exploration, a sounding out. The painterly process is based on movement, the use of quick brushstrokes, erasing and reworking - a constant conflict that is carried out with the help of colour, brush and spray. It is the totality of these components that is particularly captivating in Tomasko's work. She plays with the small format with vigour and power. Abstraction is a complex, difficult area to achieve in painting - even if it is often falsely regarded as simple - and yet; isn't every abstract picture based on an object, a theme? For Liliane, it has always been an exploration of the everyday rhythm of the night: "Sleep is a wasteland to be explored," says the artist in a short film made on the occasion of her solo exhibition "a dream of" at Blain | Southern in Berlin. It is dreams that result from this and that are realised through painting.

In earlier works, the preoccupation with dreams and sleep was still recognisable in the representational depiction of the bed - both then and now, sleep is a welcome guest for Liliane Tomasko, allowing her to detach herself from earthly existence and immerse herself in another world. This can be beautiful and calming, but can also turn into the opposite in a "grim silence". "Alternative worlds", the artist calls it, a lifeline in many situations.

With the poem realised here in painting, the artist creates a virtual, poetic tour in the gallery, which ends in the calming darkness of the blue (night, sky, garden).