"Dark Wishes #1" Artwork by Frank Albert

This picture is part of the 'Dark Wishes' series. 'Dark Wishes'. Power and powerlessness. Conflicts in the struggle between the desire for beauty and chaos. After a perfect world and order. And yet we are far from paradisiacal conditions. But who determines what paradise is, what we dream and long for. Places and spaces of personal happiness could not be more different.

'Dark Wishes' challenges the notion of beauty and tells of a journey into another dimension. Worlds in which your own beauty beyond the imaginable is possible. Thoughts that are permeated by the desire to reduce to the essentials. The panel composition creates a unique interaction between the images. Good and evil. Black and white, yin and yang, strong and weak. The complementary and yet contrasting play of opposites finds its very own interpretation in this work. utopia and dystopia.

Frank Albert's works function like an emotional diary, an archeology of memories, like a visual journey into the unknown. The search for beauty in the mysterious is a basic motif that can be found again and again in the most diverse series of works.

The expressive and yet sensitive use of color gives the works something filigree, an indefinable secret that cannot be rationally explained. Worlds of color awaken memories of experiences, structures call for discovering new things, contours give a glimpse of what is hidden.

The multi-layered and complex painting frees the viewer from a ready-made reading and invites them to get involved intuitively with the pictorial world.

Here, abstraction becomes the counterpoint to the realistic imagery we are confronted with every day. Art becomes the driver for an imaginative approach to the hidden.

Layer by layer, with many overlays, a mysterious depth is created that challenges the viewer to discover the unknown and to be seduced and inspired by the images again and again.