Paul Glim | Founder of Iconism
Artistic Mission Statement
„In MMXX I declared Iconism — three colours constitute reality.“
The human eye possesses three types of cone cells. Every colour ever perceived is the neural synthesis of these three signals — nothing more, nothing less. Past, present, future. Ground, movement, element. This irreducible trinity is not a choice. It is the condition of seeing itself.
My works follow the three. Always. Without exception.
About
Paul Oswald Glim, founder of Iconism, born 1981 in Hesse, Germany, works as a visual artist from his studio in Algaida, Mallorca.
He grew up in a house where form and craft were the everyday language. His grandfather, Harry Yserentant, was a master carpenter and architect in Aachen; his mother an interior architect and furniture designer; his aunt the glass artist Irene Rezzonico, known for her long collaboration with the Berengo glass manufactory in Venice. The discipline of making — of reducing a thing to its essential form — was learned early.
A deliberate detour followed: international business activity across America, Africa, Asia and Europe until 2016. Since 2018, Glim has devoted himself fully to his artistic practice. Studio on Mallorca since MMXXII.
Iconism is rooted in the physiology of sight: three cone types, three colours. Glim reduces every work to exactly three — not as arbitrary constraint, but as a direct reflection of the conditions under which seeing happens at all. Within those three colours, fixed roles are carried: one for the ground, one for the organic arabesque of movement, one for the human silhouette. The dancing, ecstatic figures are archetypal — bodies in motion, reduced to their most essential form.
Each work originates as a vector — mathematically precise, scalable from the smallest format to monumental dimensions — and is realised as a pigment-based print on Hahnemühle paper, sealed with high-gloss varnish.
The original (A0) is hand-finished, signed and unique — 1/1. Selected motifs are also available as numbered limited editions in smaller formats.
