
Soft Cover, German, Thread Stitching, 184 Pages, 2015
Senza Parole
Senza Parole presents the pictorial world of Tilo Baumgärtel as a sequence of images that deliberately refuse verbal explanation.
The title—without words—points to a practice grounded in atmosphere, ambiguity, and narrative suspension.Baumgärtel’s paintings depict seemingly familiar scenes that are subtly unsettled. Figures appear absorbed, isolated, or caught in moments of pause; spaces feel charged yet undefined. The images evoke cinematic stills or dream fragments, inviting projection rather than interpretation. Meaning emerges through mood, color, and compositional tension, not through explicit storytelling.
The book emphasizes painting as a space of silence and concentration. By withholding language, Senza Parole foregrounds the visual image as an autonomous field of experience—one that operates through suggestion, memory, and emotional resonance rather than description. Catalogue with 55 colour and 35 black-and-white illustrations in offset printing, designed by Andrej Loll.











