With Hasenmatt, Hild presents drawings and paintings in oil. At first, the fleetingly rendered works on paper reflect Hild's fundamental necessity to absorb nature, to collect ideas by outlining and sketching. This spontaneous approach combines destruction and reconstruction in the artistic process. Coincidental painterly traces, areas and blotches of color are condensed into visual elements.
With HASENMATT, Tobias Hild presents drawings and paintings in oil. At first, the fleetingly rendered works on paper reflect Hild's fundamental necessity to absorb nature, to collect ideas by outlining and sketching. This spontaneous approach combines destruction and reconstruction in the artistic process. Coincidental painterly traces, areas and blotches of color are condensed into visual elements.
Influenced by a longer stay in Switzerland, Hild shows a wide variety of mostly rural sceneries. Charged with complex meanings, they are proof of double standards which only surface on second glance. Subtle sarcasm and wicked humor mingle with a mystified, illusory world and a fabulous transfiguration. In Tobias Hild's most recent canvases, the vibrant, finely nuanced use of color in his drawings and earlier paintings gives way to a crude, pastose color application with an immediate immersion into his subject matter.
Tobias Hild, born in Herborn / Hesse, 1975; lives and works in Leipzig.
2000-2004: Studied illustration at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 2005: Studied in London. 2005-2007: Studied painting with Prof. Sighard Gille, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig; 2007: Diploma with Prof. Annette Schröter. Since 2007: Post-graduate studies with Prof. Annette Schröter.
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2009 Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; 2007/2008 EMMANUEL POST, Leipzig. Group exhibitions (selection): 2009 Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt and Erfurt; 2007 14. Leipziger Jahresausstellung.
Opening April 29, 2010, 7-10pm
Emmanuel Post
Windmuhlenstrasse 31b, Leipzig
hours: Wed - Sat, 2 - 6 pm
May 1, 2010, 11 am - 9 pm
May 2, 2010, 11 am - 6 pm
free admission