Atelierinteriør 1945

Jakob Weidemann's "Atelierinteriør" is a compact painting of an artist's studio, buzzing with geometric forms and charged with expressive energy. It's a world built from blocks of blues, yellows, greens, and reds. I can almost feel Jakob as he’s working, stepping back, squinting, and then lunging forward with his brush, all intuition and action! Look at the orange slash pointing downwards. Is it a structural support, a beam of light, or just a jolt of pure color? It's like a chord struck on a piano, resonating through the whole composition. And notice the thick impasto and the almost crude application of paint. There is a feeling of immediacy, a direct transmission from the artist's mind to the canvas. "Atelierinteriør" has an affinity with the work of other abstract expressionists. It makes me think of the early work of Philip Guston and his dialogue between abstraction and figuration. Weidemann is part of that same conversation, transforming the familiar stuff of the world into something new and unexpected.