Main artist

Bernhard Reiterer | *1969 a Meran / Merano, vive a Jenesien / San Genesio 

Bernhard Reiterer is a master painter. He began his apprenticeship at fourteen and set up on his own at twenty-three. He has mastered illusionistic painting – trompe-l'œil, vast mural worlds that deceive the eye – through the painter's trade; he turned to free painting only later, at the Leonardo Kunstakademie in Mattsee Castle near Salzburg, followed by a master class with Prof. Hannes Beier. In recent years he has exhibited regularly, in South Tyrol and beyond. Running through all of this is one common thread: to make colour and its vibration visible and tangible. As a human-ecological colour consultant, he helps people discover which colours support them, preferably with lime paint, which vibrates at the same frequency as the human being. His own colour at the moment is indigo, his inner sea: there he can dive down, be with himself, become honest.

“The Inner Glow”
Six coloured panels of resin, symbolising the human energy centres, arranged to form a dancing circle, illuminated through fibre-optic cables and fitted with motion sensors: whoever enters Bernhard Reiterer's walk-in installation The Inner Glow and moves – or begins to dance – makes the panels glow; the more movement, the more intense the light. At the end of the room, the points of light radiate into a large painting of two people. Biophotons are the faint light signals that every living being emits; Bernhard picks them up and translates them into colour – making visible what usually stays hidden: the vitality we radiate when we allow ourselves to vibrate. The artist urges us to become more colourful again: too often we wear only shades of grey – and radiate them. His invitation: to move through the artwork and to make one's own inner glow – the glow that dwells in each of us – tangible and visible.

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