Already at the beginning of his artistic activities around the turn of the millenium it was literally a need to Christoph Palaschke, to interpret concrete image contents of palette knifed portraits in a way of an abstracting form language. Whilst on the one hand a whole series of large-sized, often multicomponent abstract paintings originated, the portrait technique of Palaschke developed more and more into a direction of a monochrome photorealistic manner of representation.
Since 2012 the artist tries to combine portrait and abstraction in a symbiotically composition of a so called »Abstrait«. If abstraction in general is referred to as a method, in which characteristics of an item, through specific given but as unessential considered are neglected, the art form of »Abstraits« has a converse intention. Through the abstract elements of a painting the viewer shall literally be sucked into the precisely featured areas, and not get sidetracked by the initially almost as disturbance felt side motive. Drawn lines set as stylistic devices in earlier works to achieve three-dimensional effects are now substituted with smooth color transition and geometrical motives. The monochromy gives way to a polychrome composition.