After his studies at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, the work of the painter Christian Sauer took on a life of its own, fueled by independently inspired processes and dynamics. His work illustrates the interplay and dialogue between motifs of ordinary life from his immediate environment and his affinity for abstraction. Sauer developed his own technique of collage by putting together dried particles of paint on the canvas to new figurative arrangements and coined the term Peinture Collée.
This technique is characterized by splashing and pouring several layers of acrylic paint on the ground, then letting them soak into each other and dry. These skins of paint with their ornamental structures, afterwards are cut or torn into pieces, and then formed into ensembles or rags of paint on the canvas just like pieces of a puzzle. From these, representational motifs of trees, architectonics and moments of daily life emerge. During this process, Sauer occasionally intervenes with brushes to define shapes or highlight details.
From time to time, the fields of colour extend beyond their tightly defined boundaries and become lost in the image area, creating new abstract structures. The highly personalized techniques used by Sauer in his Peinture Collée serve to express in a multitude of ways his interest in the daily life of regular people and the diversity of their existences.