The inevitable comes along

ProImpro seminar at the Institut für Jazz und Improvisierte Musik of the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität 10-12.03.2026

The inevitable comes along

This piece emerged within the framework of the ProImpro seminar curated and organized by Martin Stepanik and Chris Kronreif at the Institut für Jazz und Improvisierte Musik of the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, translating into the realm of the visual arts a principle commonly found in musical practice: creation in real time. While the act of painting usually remains outside the public gaze, it is here conceived as a field of action in which preparation, experience and intuition converge.

Starting from an open compositional structure, the piece developed “on the fly”, without a prior sketch and through successive decisions taken during its execution. The work unfolds through a process of construction, correction and reduction, in which each gesture responds to the previous one. Improvisation is thus understood not as pure spontaneity, but as the activation of accumulated knowledge in the very moment of practic

Mixed media on canvas
140x180cm
Vienna 2026

Eduardo Chillida: Writings:

“My work is always inspired by the desire to know. I have said on more than one occasion that I know the work before making it, but at the same time, I do not know or want to know how it will be. … Works that are known a priori are born dead, because the artist who makes them is dead.”

“In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.”