Untitled 1987

Karl Otto Götz made this untitled work with a black and white palette, leaning heavily into mark making as a process. The sharp contrast immediately grabs your attention, doesn't it? Looking closely, you can see the physicality of the medium. The stark white marks appear almost scratched into the dark surface, creating a sense of depth and texture. The paint is applied in strokes, and there's a rawness to it, a directness that suggests speed and spontaneity. See that sharp, dark shape near the center? It anchors the composition, but it also feels like a visual interruption, a sudden break in the flow. Götz was part of the German Informel movement, which embraced abstraction and gestural painting, similar to some American Abstract Expressionists. You could almost see de Kooning in those frantic strokes, but Götz has his own voice, a kind of controlled chaos. And that's the beauty of art, isn't it? It's a conversation across time and space, full of echoes and new beginnings.