in online exhibition Painterly
Lexikon, 2009
From Forty Are Better Than One
Double-sided 6-part leporello, digital pigment print (Ditone) on 308 g Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 32 x 150 cm (12½ x 59 in). Edition: 75, signed and numbered on label on archival sleeve.
Thomas Scheibitz’s edition Lexikon is a large-format horizontal print composed of six panels, printed on both sides. The front presents a sequence of abstract-figurative compositions in vivid colors: fragmented forms, architectural elements, and graphic structures converge to form complex visual spaces. The reverse reveals a drawn vocabulary of pared-down line illustrations – a kind of visual archive of objects, symbols, and signs, punctuated by sparse touches of color. Balancing systematic structure with associative openness, Lexikon reveals the artist’s visual thinking and unites two central strands of his practice: painting and drawing, surface and structure, order and imagination.
