Vibrant compositions towards an imaginary world, distancing our vision from the everyday life and transporting us to new abstract scenarios: the following artists explore different possibilities of a contemporary abstraction, made out of spontaneous gestures and primary sensations, going beyond the boundaries of classical painting.
Mirco Marchelli (1963, Italy) and Sabine Finkenauer (1961, Germany) – Alzueta Gallery – use simple and childish geometric shapes as a reminder of worlds belonging to our collective memory, where purity and innocence detach us from the daily frenzy.
A multidisciplinary approach between geometry, abstraction and design is used by Xavier Theunis (1978, Belgium) – Backslash – who mainly work with materials from industry (adhesives, tape, stainless steel, mdf board) at the limit between art installation and architecture.
Leon Löwentraut (1998, Germany) – By Lara Sedbon - uses the canvas as a place to unload his emotions, taking distance from the surrounding world and allowing himself to be guided only by the impetus of the pictorial gesture to create dynamic, vibrant compositions.
Jürgen Jansen (1960, Germany) – Galerie Obrist - apply large patches of color, whose vivid tonal rendering is accentuated by the application of resin on wood and create vibrant constellations highlighting the play between luminosity and transparency of the paint skin.
The richness of colors, the interchange between light and shadow, going beyond the physical limits of the canvas towards new perspectives is visible in Julia Sossinka’s immersive artworks (1983, Germany) – ARTBASE.
The disruptive force of colors combined with the grace of delicate nuances of tones is present in Mojé Assefjah’s paintings (1970 Iran) – Galerie Nanna Preußners. Reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance, even in the use of the egg tempera medium (on canvas, linen or wood), her wide and delicate brushstrokes intend to transform natural forms, such as vegetable plants or floral ribbons, into new scenarios between abstraction and figuration.
Another female artist who emphasizes the attention to the pictorial gesture is Teresa Möller (1988, Germany) - Rodler Gschwenter Gallery. Her precise and decisive vertical and horizontal pictorial signs create new universes composed of surreal colors (from vivid lime green to strong cobalt blue, from mauve pink to strident orange), revealing the fascination of the natural world.
A poetic lyricism aimed to bring back memories and hidden sensations, is found in the artworks of Nasreddine Bennacer (1967, Algeria) Nasreddine Bennacer (1967, Algeria) - GALERIE LAZAREW. His works, mostly on Japanese paper, recall the strong relationship that binds us to the primary impulses of our being, to those lost dreams of the artist’s homeland.
All works are available in our catalogue
By Emanuela Mazzonis
