"I let a color wander across the canvas to let the paint paint itself"
The Berlin artist Rainer Splitt (1963, DE) is all about observation, experiment and the emotional power of color. The flow of the paint, its specific shape and spaceforming characteristics are the core of his artistic research. How can paint succeed in painting itself, regardless of any desire for expression and independent of a prefigured idea? What consequences does this have for our expectations of the image?