Liliane Tomasko: Blind Spot

Liliane Tomasko's paintings are based on photographs and drawings of unmade beds. The artist translates this starting point into a painting that takes its time. She works on several works at the same time, steps back, lets them rest and then starts again to weave colour and quick brushstrokes into what is already there.

For about a year now, in addition to works on linen, she has also been creating works on aluminium. A material that captivates through the hardness of the substrate. The acrylic paint is applied with a brush, sticks to the surface and radiates powerfully and strongly. The aluminium paintings shown in the bechter kastowsky gallery in Schaan are all from a series and have the same formats. For Liliane Tomasko, these works are a mixture of dream, interior and landscape in which the subconscious always plays an important role.

Dreams have always been an important point of reference for the Swiss artist and represent a mixture of the past and the present. They have no history in the conventional sense, but all the more a sensual quality. The artist captures this sensuality in her paintings.

She always uses a spray as a preliminary drawing, which she applies to the picture support with spontaneity. Often the first layer of paint is painted into the still wet spray, the network of traces disappears, becomes denser. Control is not what makes the works, or what Liliane Tomasko is interested in during the painting process. Her interest in the painting process is the balance between this very control and all the conditions, feelings and incidents that occupy her during the creation.

While the works on linen often show a clear direction in the painting, those paintings on aluminium take different directions, they are more moving, more open and their sensuality is sometimes a little more confused.

Liliane Tomasko has experienced a clear and stringent further development in her abstract painting in recent years. The works now exhibited in Schaan were created in 2021, a time that was strongly influenced by the worldwide situation of the pandemic. For the artist, however, this was also a time that allowed a strong focus on her art. Flown directly from her studio in New York, the paintings radiate an enormous strength, warmth and also a certain mysticism, they are, in her words: "A sense of a dream".