" This painting springs from the ambition to paint color into the air." (Ulrich Loock) Nicola Staeglich's (b. Oldenburg, 1970; lives and works in Berlin) work with color achieves a distinctive intermediate state between physical presence and atmospheric radiance. She stages painting now as a performative action with broad propositions in color, now as an installation in three dimensions with multilayered translucent painted panels. Color Light Matter Mind is Staeglich's first monograph, setting recent works in relation to her earlier output (1998- 2021). From the spiral-shaped reliefs to her Liquid Lights, the artist opens up a fresh dimension for color. Nicola Staeglich studied at the St
