Troels Wörsel

TROELS WÖRSEL

THE REVERSE OF THE PAINTING

Troels Wörsel regards paintings as images; not windows to the world. His pictures are artificial and brimming with complicated signs, allusions and stories.
 
Untitled (Trondheim), 1994

Untitled (Trondheim), 1994

Description
Untitled (Trondheim) comprises two units, flush and of equal size. The painting presents a cluttered garage-like room painted in black, white and grey nuances in a wealth of techniques. Boards, brooms and step ladders dominate the back of the room while the foreground is empty and thus more abstract. Broken through walls stand as empty frames.

About the work
The painting seems to reproduce a workspace or possibly a studio. Initially we see the easily recognisable tools; only later do the more complex and paradoxical elements of the picture become evident. The picture not only depicts a concrete room but also abstract, formal lines and expanses of colour.
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Troels Wörsel’s art in general
Troels Wörsel is interested in painting, its history and what it can and cannot do. His works frequently develop from philosophically inspired questions on the relationship between illusion and abstraction: the paradox that a painting often depicts something while being a self-contained object in its own right. When does a picture represent something and when does it represent itself?
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Literature
Troels Wörsel and Ove Mogensen: Troels Wörsel Maleri/Malerei, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder 2000
Troels Wörsel: Troels Wörsel Orange & Holes, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne 1995
Jacob Wamberg: Troels Wörsel, Dansk Nutidskunst 14, Forlaget Palle Fogtdal A/S, Copenhagen 1992
Troels Wörsel and Niels Vørsel: Notes Come & Go, I-III, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich 1985
Dierk Stemmler: Troels Wörsel: Bilder 1978-82, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1982