Christian Achenbach
dal 31/10/2008 al 16/1/2009
Segnalato da
31/10/2008
Christian Achenbach
Wendt+Friedmann Galerie, Berlin
Zorlac. Going against the current German Gothic trend, Achenbach's paintings are unusually optimistic, spilling over with life-affirming, anarchic energy. His paintings are literally full of music and his use of paint is now more rugged than before: contouring is more radical and it is getting harder to identify distinct figures.
After his resounding success in Copenhagen earlier this year Christian Achenbach is now going to have his second solo exhibition, “Zorlac”, at the ‘Wendt + Friedmann Galerie’. Going against the current ‘German Gothic’ trend, Christian Achenbach’s paintings are unusually optimistic, spilling over with life-affirming, anarchic energy. His paintings are literally full of music!
His use of paint is now more rugged than before: contouring is more radical and it is getting harder to identify distinct figures.
Achenbach indulges in the retro particles of op art, and in the musical cross-over of theseventies and eighties – for example, that of the subversive artist Francis Picabia. Achenbach doesn’t look for solutions, instead he seeks out states.
He uses oil paint on canvass sweepingly, allowing it to speak to us as oil paint, thus enabling us to perceive painting for what it is – painting! A mixture of abstraction and figuration is the result, giving off the welcome sensation of a positive outlook on the world.
Opening Saturday, 01.November 08, 6-9 pm
Wendt+Friedmann Galerie
Zehdenicker Str. 13 - Berlin