Wholeness, completeness - not oneness. Like a man and a woman, these paintings speak to this issue. I speak of these paperworks as paintings, because they are whole as a conception and realization and therefore the medium is transcended.

In our society today we find fracture, separation, disintegration to be dominant themes. It is by now a recognized issue that some art reinforces and exalts.

To confuse the viewer with multiple visual spaces and provide a forum for "playhouse viewer participation".

But Cornelia Eichacker wanted a baby. And was blessed with one. Somehow I think this fits coincidentally with her concept of wholeness. Curiously this quality in her work attracts me, even seduces me but always remains separate. I enter the space of each painting only to realize I am a visitor. Which is why I want to come back. I am a visitor because the space, the light, and equilibrium belongs only to her. It is her home and I accept her invitation only to return to mine. We must all go to heaven or hell alone but while we are here we whish to participate in the view of these people; artists give meaning to the time we spend here on the earth. And the degree to which some articulate this journey or space, gives a measure to the possibility of fullness or wholeness.

But can wholeness be better or worse. By nature of the word it cannot. More simply put, can a person be more or less. In a way, we think we try to realize this wholeness but we don`t all arrive. However, if we do, then there is no more a hierarchy. Wholeness is absolute.

With these paintings I find wholeness and they are fullfilling and one has only to visit. There is nothing really to say. That is the power of the work. We need only to permit ourselves to accept this invitation that is in the paintings.

Text von Prof. Jerry Zeniuk

Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung, Cornelia Eichacker

Brooklyn, 1995,
Arbeiten auf Papier

in der Galerie Renate Bender,
München, am 16. Mai 1998