isaila,* chr.vielhaber

The Düsseldorfer, Ion Isaila, is not someone whose life work one can perceive from one the oeuvre.
But whoever has followed the series of his exhibitions could hardly speak of breaks or schism, rather of a logical and often Unusual chronicicling of the artistic deportment. The artist relates in his pictures basically the same thing that he has formulated previously, although using other means... No wards he fashions his picture spaces more freely and openly. The pastels application of colour has his roots in the earlier relief-like material pictures. What still remains is the en tense confrontation with the surface and with the insertion of signs.

...in the later works the attempt to treat surface and signs with an equal artistry is more strongly evident. Compendium is the name the artist has given to this encyclopedic work, which reflects a confront-action with the ground planes of Roman architecture. Crosses, rosettes, connected room systems or clutches of spears - sapienti sat ! But even the uninformed are able to make sense of this sign system,whose effect is incredibly dynamic an vital, in spite of the non - colors such as black ,grey, anthracite and pale ochre and spite, too of the intentional static. And even if wildness does not count as an aesthetic criterion, these stepping stones to the encroaching picture are still aesthetically good to hold.