Katharina Grosse's painting has an expansive power and creates pictorial spaces that are different from the spaces of our everyday, three-dimensional world. Since the turn of the millennium, a group of works has emerged in which Grosse works with structures of colored lines. Color and line merge into color bands that stretch across the surface of the picture in concentric arcs or like wickerwork, forming a multidimensional fabric. The artist superimposes the paint in dense layers, but also leaves gaps, openings and breaks. The colors are transparent, the layers of color underneath remain visible, creating an impression of spatial depth. The present work from 2003, which captivates the viewer with both its arresting dimensions and a mesh of iridescent violet, orange and turquoise-blue tones, is a particularly beautiful example from this creative period. The palette impresses with color chords that, through partial overlapping, create an interesting mix of hues. The eyes wander across the huge canvas, linger here or there, and try to reveal the process of creation. The artist achieves the impression of floating colors through the way she applies the paint. She gently draws the broad brush soaked with strongly thinned paint across the canvas. The fascination that the work exerts on the observer is increased by the fact that the picture is not finite, it is open to all sides can seems to continue beyond the actual format. This is accompanied by the lack of a clear pictorial center and the pictorial structure becomes an even, thousand-fold interwoven fabric, like a flood in which the individual phenomena emerge or submerge. In this work Katharina Grosse plays with the topic of dissolution of boundaries and addresses the question of the pictorial space - a concept that she pursues to the extreme in her large-scale paintings and spatial installations. [SM]