Josef Gera - Verdichtung I

Josef Gera – COMPRESSION I

Acrylic Painting - Hand-signed - 2025

This large-format abstract work unfolds on an intensely luminous yellow ground that serves as an energetic projection surface for a dense network of splashes, drips, and dynamic lines. In layered overpaint, red, blue, green, orange, and white accents enter into a tense dialogue.

The composition is vertically organized. While the upper area feels more open and expansive, the lower half of the image becomes denser, forming a more complex, almost eruptive structure. Fine speckles contrast with powerful, sometimes impasto lines, creating an balanced interplay between control and chance.

Artist: Josef Gera (born 24.02.1969)

Visual Artist (Multidisciplinary), self-taught
Born in Wels (AT), nationality: Austrian
1975 – 1984 – Schooling (AT)
1984 – 1987 – Apprenticeship (AT)
1988 – 2013 – Professional career (CH, AT)
2013 – 2023 – Entrepreneur (AT)
2023 – Visual Artist

Visual Artist (AT)
Lives and works in Salzburg

https://josefgera.at/

Title: COMPRESSION I
Series: Compressions
Date: 2025
Technique: Mixed media on canvas
Framing: Shadow-gap frame with 12mm sight edge; satin-matt white varnish.
Representation: 80x120 cm
Image size: 84.5x124.5 cm (including frame)
Depth: 3.5 cm
Signature: hand-signed, verso bottom
Unique work
Provenance: Directly from the artist
To be delivered with COA
Condition: In excellent condition
Shipping: The work is delivered with framing and hanging. Insured shipping (Europe excluding islands).

Artist Statement:
In my work, I am interested in the moment when movement becomes form. For me, color is not an image but an event that unfolds in space, concentrates, and then releases again. In the disorder of randomness lies the possibility of the unexpectedly beautiful; precisely in this field of tension between control and letting go, my paintings arise.