V E R N I S S A G E
March 26th, 2023
11 am - 3 pm
in Leverkusen

The rough and fine structures of the dried-out, torn soil, the burst coarse gravel, the sand dunes that the winds have formed, all this draws the artist Carsten Westphal to the deserts. He mixes the materials, which he finds there, the salt, the sand, the soil and the dust pigments, with colour pigments and bonding agents and applies them onto the canvas using trowels and brushes. Thus, he creates telluric landscapes, mirror images of the elementary powers, which created these landscapes, structure paintings, which can only develop like this in the deserts.

R. Fancher Brinkmann’s paintings widely relinquish shape and form, leaving impalpable surfaces and fields that work entirely through the impact of their color.Colors provoke sensations and feelings in every person, whether consciously or subconsciously. "Every person sees something different in my paintings. That is the wonder of abstract art.”

For more than 25 years, the photographer Bernhard Edmaier has been very deeply dedicated to photographing the surface of our planet – the forces of Nature which form the Earth. His seemingly abstract aerial images, in which high quality photography and science unite, have caused international sensation and have been received with great excitement by international audiences.

Christoph Jakob lets the stone tell its story, but listening is not a contemplative process but hard back-breaking work. But the ability to listen leads to the artist not imposing his design ideas on the stone, but allowing them to develop in sensitive correspondence with the natural conditions of the material, the design concept developing in harmony with the properties of the stone.

Sandra Wenderhold Gallery Manager		John David Curator