Many years ago, the Linz-based artist considered an unagitated view from the banks into the clear water of a calm lake to be the starting point for a new painterly exploration. Where the

reflective surface also gave a transparent view through it and to the ground, near and far vision blurred. Adelheid Rumetshofer now understood the visually captured space in front of her as an

accumulation and interference of various transparent, non-transparent, light-reflective and low-light levels. These interlocked, determined and covered each other at the same time, so that a

grasp of the space could be understood as a process of layering. In a similar way, layer upon layer, the artist carefully applies her oil paints to a dark primed canvas. - Niklas Koschel