
SILVESTRo
GEIEr
Talking about painting is pointless. When you convey something through language, you change it. You construct characteristics that can be spoken about and suppress those that cannot be spoken about, but which are always the most important.
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About the shape of a moment and the colors of smell
A snapshot - as the word itself implies - is the capturing of a moment. A brief instant that fades as quickly as it arrives. Yet, for these moments to occur, there needs to be a prior entanglement of events, of prerequisites, of moments packed with emotions. Moments have a backstory. However inconspicuous they may seem, they always have a reason to exist. And moments require no explanations. They tell stories on their own, intertwining with the viewer's memories and sometimes reviving feelings and even scents from the past.
"It lies with the viewer. It's their image. What I've painted is my image. What the viewer sees in it is their image," says the young artist Philip Silvestro Geier, hailing from Neumarkt, about his balancing act between the "told" and the "unspoken."