Oto Rimele (born in 1962 in Maribor, Slovenia) graduated in 1990 from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Professor Emerik Bernard. In 1992, he completed a painting specialisation under the supervision of Professor Janez Bernik. Since 1997, he has been teaching painting and drawing at the Department of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, and is now a Full Professor. In 2004, his exhibit Illuminations held at the church of the former Cistercian monastery in Kostanjevica na Krki won a Prešeren Fund Award, one of the highest decorations in artistic creation in Slovenia. His works are presented on this website: http://www.otorimele.com.

In 2012, his monograph entitled Oto Rimele: Duhovnost materialne odsotnosti / Spirituality of Material Absence was published; the expert study for the monograph was written by Jure Mikuž. In the creative process, Oto Rimele strives to dematerialize everything material. His artefacts are large, heavy objects with subtle shades of white on the front faces. The painter covers the sides set diagonally against the wall with intense fluorescent colours that project coloured light onto the walls. The visitor of the exhibition faces a practically unnoticeable object surrounded by a coloured aura that changes with the day lighting. Mr Rimele justifiably calls his images “light catchers”; a significant component of their appearance is also the time dimension. Aided by the images, the painter invites the viewer into a contemplative mood and encourages him to face himself, to search for the inner beauty, which leads towards cleansing. Oto Rimele is a faithful reader of ancient philosophers; he is particularly fond of Plotinus, who worshipped Plato, taught the mystic Dionysius the Areopagite and inspired Aurelius Augustine.

In this artwork colour is present like the natural reflection of the painted canvas outside the painting surface at the paintings back. So, the source of colour isn′t any electric source. It happens naturally like a reflection on the wall. I′m researcing this phaenomen more than a decade. A non-material reflection on the wall appears as a reflection of the painted object. And in daylight it changes all the time. You are kindly invited to see a video of that process on homepage http://www.otorimele.com/en/video-1/.

The photo of this artwork is published in the book '100 Artists of the Future'. 

The artwork is multi-paneled (11 panels).