Hanns Kunitzberger abbild. «... What is visible is never the object as such but only the limiting boundary thereof. It is the boundary of a visible lack, the lack of likeness. A limitation caused by a definite absence, by the error, by the non-existence of a corresponding ‹truth›: a truth which – just as likeness – is a form non-existent per se that becomes visible only through its surroundings and only along its limiting boundary. Only the description of this boundary will produce our reality, the description of something that is not present as such. To put it differently: it is actually the representation of an object not really existing that will produce our reality. However, the intent on resemblance implies the objective loss of our pictures and is the cause of their disappearance: through the process of describing, which is always hesitation, a hazardous trying to stop the time before the loss of the pictures, and which resembles the silence, which we terminate the very moment at which we perceive the silence. However, is an image lacking likeness truer than the object perceived? An image without likeness is not an unalike picture. Since unlikeness presupposes likeness, this question describes a likeness that does not exist, a likeness that has totally disappeared as a consequence of its continuous description: a description that is always also the description of a loss. However, the loss of likeness is not formlessness. The loss of likeness is the disillusionment. Disillusionment is a stopover at the border of non-cognition. At a border where our order based on likeness changes into a disordered perception, into non-realised cognition, into a non-verbal reminiscence. It is the space between the pictures. At this border, an image without likeness is a picture without a verbal expression: a non-verbal picture. A picture offering the possibility of shared contemplation without the necessity of verbalisation, a silence due to the absence of the necessity for description. ...» Hanns Kunitzberger, from the text «abbild.» 2005. From the volume «Hanns Kunitzberger. Die Orte der Bilder. Painting.»

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