Gleiwitz’s painting is characterized by a dynamic play of forms emerging out a common ground and the rendering absolute of this same ground that gathers and units all of the forms. Faceless corporal as well as non-corporal entities appear, look at us and crowd their way out of the picture; hybrids between man and animal, vegetable and mineral, shapes that defy any clear recognition and labeling. Oscillating between substantial and insubstantial, without coming to rest at either the secure pole of abstract form or recognizable figure, the pictures remain poised in a timeless interval between coming into being and dissolution. They are pictures this side of language that deftly elude all ascriptions and confront the linguistic void with a visual density in which no distinctive feature is subordinate to a commonality.

The pictures by Gregor Gleiwitz reveal nothing to us but they persist in their appearance and remain in a state of becoming. Their dense concentration has seemingly sealed them against access by language, which forever sacrifices the state of becoming to the state of being, the openness and potential to the recognizable and labeled.

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