Subsequent to our Summer Visitors 2009 with painters from Moldova, New York and Berlin, we once more present three young painters.

The beholder of the works painted by Swedish artist Emanuel Bernstone (*1973, Karlskrona) gazes at architectures of cool strictness, solely animated by the interplay of light, shadow and reflections. No matter if staircases, corridors or spaces somewhere in-between interior and exterior, the rooms look straight and sharp, are painted in blue, grey and black shades and - reduced to their minimum - function just like stages one can project their own stories and dreams onto. „Every picture that I see, is created by my personal experiences and visions”, says the artist. Indeed, the spaces appear peculiarly universal and somehow timeless. Calmness and emptiness dominate. Narrative processes thus depend on the imagination of the beholder. Bernstone attaches great importance to the surface texture of the colour as well as to painting techniques. The outlines of the rooms depicted with high precision thus contrast with blurred colour fields. The paintings oscillate between very tangible structures and totally free colour planes.

Korean painter Yongtak Choi (1973, Seoul) proceeds somehow similarly. While in some paintings – such as “mule” – he contrasts extreme photorealism and abstract colour clouds, he combines these elements in his large-scale portraits. The eye of the beholder may focus as well on the discernable features or concentrate on the innumerable colours, vivid colour structures or their harmonies on the picture plane.

Berlin-based painter Juliane Walther (*1982, Berlin) also contrasts depicted objects and freely composed colour fields in her paintings. More precisely, she combines geometric forms and gestural, expressively painted structures and sometimes even clearly distinguishable figures - the whole forming a surprisingly harmonic image.

Opening View:             Friday, January 22nd, 2010, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition:                    January 22nd – March 6th, 2010