Acrylic Works

In his acrylic works, Thomas Emde places nub-like colour matter between two sheets of acrylic glass. In this way, he combines two contrary forms of existence of colour and colour perception: on the one hand, the smooth, polished surface of the acrylic glass panes, in which the colour seems to be enclosed in a disembodied way, forming an even monochrome colour field. On the other hand, there is the physically proliferating, haptic colour matter that almost seems to swell out of the panes - thus breaking up the smooth pictorial character of the acrylic glass surface in the direction of sculpture.