Philosophy of the artwork

Philosophy behind the work

Quote Oscar Wilde

The philosophy behind Rudolfs artwork, since 1993, came upon him when he read a paragraph in "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

Since then all his work is based on this principle, namely, that the spectator sees or feels things in an artwork that reflects his/her own personality. The spectator seldom sees exactly what the artist has intended, this is especially the case with abstract art. Art is only a mirror shaped in a certain way, a mirror who's shining surface is colored and manipulated by the artist, but it is always the spectator who, unconsciously, directs the reflections in such a way that it fits his/her own personality pattern.
A direct proof of this is the way in which Rudolf interpreted the quoted paragraph of Oscar Wilde. Someone else will undoubtedly see other things in that passage, which have no bearing at all with Rudolfs ideas about it.
Mirrors on the Wall was the first project in which Rudolf consciously created mirrors for the spectators, instead of trying to press an idea by force upon them. Of course, there is always an intended meaning behind his work, but it waits patiently in the background, to pop up when the onlooker is tired of creating his own reflection.

Rudolf doesn't mean that viewers are by definition stupid when they don't immediately grasp the meaning behind an artwork, on the contrary; he only says that viewers see things in the light of their own experience, which makes in fact, that when they look at art, they are temporarly creating art themselves.