SCHÜNO

The German artist Schüno studied Graphic Art and Painting at the Academy of Arts in his native city of Mainz from where he went on to attend advanced courses in Munich. Today he works in Mainz and in Mallorca.
Close examination of the career of this versatile and critically aware artist reveals a constant quest for new challenges and a fascination with materials and the environment.
After a period spent experimenting with colours, shapes and techniques, Schüno's focus has progressed from classic modern via informal to structural art. This form of painting gave him the scope to express himself in a uniquely individual way.
Schüno's pictures are not subject to the constraints of naturalist depiction: as with an abstract image, the artist obeys the natural laws of colour. Applying countless glazing coats, he adds and intensifies colour, shape and structure in a sequence of apparently random processes. Flowing forms in combination with a variety of structures achieved with different materials such as sand, rock and soil, to name but a few, produce works that are highly differentiated and varied.
Schüno's works are based on the autonomous language of his materials. The blending of colour, shape and structure in his pictures is reminiscent of the beauty of a morbid volcanic landscape with its furrowed and jagged surface. Schüno portrays nature through abstract, gnarled tree bark of ancient island olives, parched earth, archaic rock formations and the blue colour of the Mediterranean.
His works point to the polarity between material and spirit as well as to physical substances with nature, the environment and the blunders being committed in our time. Schüno's works speak to us in an immediate and urgent language and their intensity lends them persuasive powers.