Esther Stocker

Esther Stocker's work is based on basic geometric principles, yet the pieces exhibit breaks and disruptions. She develops these as a system of geometric symbols and grid systems in black, white, and gray, expanding them into the third dimension and thereby transforming space and architecture. A central theme is the "representation of a functional system of the approximate, the vagueness of exact forms." The incorporated disruptions are often minimal and create dynamic pictorial spaces that lose their supposed pattern of order. "I need the grid or order," says the artist, "in order to be able to describe a deviation from it in the first place. Lack of system can only be described through systems; it is part of the system. Behind chaos, there is always a kind of order." Three-dimensional space is also treated like a pictorial space; Stocker transfers the mental experience of entering a picture into real space. Walking through it, the viewer stands in the center of the picture and can continually experience the space anew through movement (for example, in the Liaunig Museum, for which Stocker developed a spatial installation).
Quoted from: Günther Oberhollenzer. Geometric abstraction, painterly experiments, and the transcendence of two dimensions. Fair – Magazine for Art and Architecture 01/2018.