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«...Mein Leben ist eine Verflechtung von mehreren mir lieb gewordenen Beschäftigungen, die einander im Gleichgewicht halten; einerseits das Geschäft, anderseits das ästhetische Schaffen...»

The painter Nikolaus Hipp says about himself: “My life is a weaving together of a number of activities that I have become fond of and that keep each other in balance – on one hand, the business end and the aesthetic creative work on the other.” And one believes him. Quiet, sensitive and sharply observant, he sits opposite you. Calm, but nevertheless with a forceful energy.

And these are all characteristics of his paintings as well: quiet, sensitive, sharply observant both internally and externally, calm, yet with a powerful energy. When contemplated for a while, his paintings – unnamed and non-representational – radiate a magical appeal that draws the observer in and transports him to an artistic world where a wide range of expression exists: the great, shown succinctly and within deliberately limited dimensions, darkness and resurrection in a drama of colour and the near and tender world of sensory perception. It is an artistic view of great density and precision, of attentive observation, of detailed rendering of content and of transcendent reference.

Among the newest paintings by Nikolaus Hipp are several compositions that were developed around a centrally placed colour field with spectral colour properties. These colour fields that are placed in the middle draw the observer’s gaze, and provide an instruction on how to contemplate the work, while the pictorial action is built around it.

As philosophy teaches us, colours are created from the interplay of light and darkness. In daylight, the sky is blue, light between us and the darkness of space; at sunset, red appears, the light of the sun’s rays behind the darkness of the foreground. These are all human experiences with the cosmos that are revealed within the colours.
Art is the means to pass on these experiences. In “abstract” paintings such as those by Nikolaus Hipp, the drama of the colors – evoked in its light and darkness – is made visible.

You stop in front of Nikolaus Hipp’s paintings, you observe them – and you linger. You will discover their secret power to harmonise the world around them.
Heidi Leupi, Luzern, Switzerland