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9/7/2009

Sommergaste 2009

Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin

This summer we present three figurative painters coming from very different cultural backgrounds.

The young Berlin artist Erik Andersen (1977 Freiburg) questions the reality of paintings. By distorting the appearance of trivial every day objects he draws the viewer’s attention to the painted surface thus functioning as a space for imagination. Besides, Andersen deals with two-dimensionality of the canvas and depicts objects that interfere with the surrounding space, like the painting of a surveillance camera seemingly observing the gallery.

New York artist Daniel Bodner (1963 Milwaukee, lives and works in New York) depicts street settings taken from everyday life and submerges them by a strong backlighting. Irrecognizable persons are silhouetted against the urban space, the architectural structures contrasts with their soft contours. A grainy texture and washed-out colours make Bodners works look like fading documents. ‘Too much light can act to destroy space or an image and that is a metaphor for life as well’, he explains. (American Art Collector Magazine, Dezember 2007)

The work of Moldovan Painter Alexander Tinei (1967 Caushani, lives and works in Budapest) mainly consists of portraits of his immediate environment but also strangers he knows from the internet. Reduced colours in the background of the paintings direct the whole attention on the figures which with their calm, nearly melancholy aura are slightly disturbing and whose bodies are covered with intriguing, blue lines. They look like tattoos but seem to live an independent existence at the same time - and are characteristic for Tinei’s artistic language.

Opening: Friday, 10.07.2009, 6 – 10 pm

Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 185 - Berlin
Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 to 18:00 & by prior arrangement
Free admission

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