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JAZZ COLOURS Jürgen Born was born 1955 in Uelzen/Germany. Today he lives with his wife and daughter in a small village near Hildesheim. His colour intensive spatula oil paintings pick out the world of jazz as a central theme - they are painted music, which he has been developing continually with his series "Jazz Colours" since 1994. The visual language Born uses, is highly expressive - the aim being to merge figure and soundcolours, to abstract and reduce. Source materials are mainly black and white photos from old jazz magazines, combined with the comprimised recollections of innumerable concerts. The results are paintings which create a very authentic mood, in which the play of light and shadow is mastered and the whole melancholy and force of black music is depicted.

Jürgen Born is a specialist. His field is sound. Born is a soundgiver.

He enjoys an excellent reputation. Only very few in his profession look back on 25 years of experience. In the mid seventies he entered the world of nocturnal sounds, into the clubs, into the dialogue between beats and breaks, basses, brass music, strings and shouters. He entered into the smoky cellars of juvenile hysteria, into the permanent fight between DJ and audience. A world of changing light.

A DJ. A Disk Jockey. A conductor without baton or orchestra. Just disc and audience. A disc jockey, a disc rider on the emotional waves of drinking dancers and dancing drinkers. Entered into Sex & Drugs & Rock´n Roll, changed over to Soul and Funk, left for Blues and Jazz.

It is the colours of Jazz which fascinate Born. Only the colours of Jazz can put an end to the contradiction between painting and music. Only by means of Jazz, Jürgen Born succeeded in making sound visible and transforming sound waves into light waves. It is the history of Jazz and the story of the musicians which form the background for each moment turning a person into a metaphore and making the instrument sound. It is the intimate knowledge of music which makes the romance from the world of musicians and leaves behind the emotions.

Borns paintings are emotional, who wants to deny it. Even simple portraits sometimes are so emotional, that you want to know if the painting is still moist. Even more so are the singing Billy Holiday, the saxophone addictive Charlie Parker, or the orchestra scenes! However, what seems to the distanced follower of Max Ernst to be sentimental expressionism, hits right into the soul of Jazz. For Jazz tells stories that life created, often they deal with love and sorrow, with suffering and the pleasure of life. They are sometimes abstract but never distanced.

Borns paintings are the fight for the visibility of sounds, melodies and stories, they are fates of music painted with wax and oil, brush and spatula, or expressed in his masterly paper collages. You can hear Borns paintings, they sound to everyone who likes Jazz.
Jazz colours.