Artist biography paul klee fish magic

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“Art does not reproduce what is visible, but makes visible what is not always visible.”

This phrase by Paul Klee encapsulates part of his poetics and translates aesthetically into the graffiti technique the artist uses in the painting ‘Fish Magic’ of 1925.

The surface of the painting is dark, a formless backdrop; like before the creation and explosion of life that was the big bang: in the beginning was darkness.

This darkness is the stuff of the unconscious, hidden beneath the façade of things and even of ourselves, difficult to detect and understand, which seems to be a real mystery. Knowing our unconscious, like the secrets of existence, is an arduous if not impossible task, a heroic challenge that not all of us are prepared to undertake.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, what are the pieces of my whole?

Shining in the dark

Klee’s magic fish do no