International painting

Isabelle Borges explores the relationship between space, order and perception in her art (Galerie Heike Strelow).

When Frankfurt's galleries open their doors at the beginning of September, it becomes clear that international painting is asserting its strength and diversity like never before. From September 5 to 7, the Saisonstart leads through a dense network of Exhibitions in which international positions and local scenes meet at eye level.

A walk through the Innenstadt is enough to get an idea of the range. At Jacky Strenz you come across the Bulgarian Martina Vachevawho charges pop culture, folklore and social criticism with grotesque humor - images that take their roots just as seriously as they ironically break them.

With Heike Strelow the works of Isabelle Borges: color-intensive, geometric compositions that weave urban structures and observations of nature into vibrant patterns. The paintings by Manuel M. Romero are also almost architectural. Manuel M. Romerowho is exhibited in the new FILIALE (Stiftstraße 9) interlocks spaces and pictorial surfaces in such a way that painting and architecture are inseparably intertwined.

The gallery Bärbel Grässlin continues with Secundino Hernández a familiar name - this is the Spaniard's sixth solo exhibition in Frankfurt. His painting oscillates between spontaneity and control, between gesture and structure, always with an almost musical dynamic.

Art history itself is not left out either: Dimitris Tzamouranis, 2017 participant of the documenta in Kassel, transferred to the gallery Monica Ruppert canonical imagery into a painterly present. At the gallery Raphael opens Mickaël Doucet opens up imaginary spaces in which the painterly functions as an invitation to dream. And in the Westend, the gallery Hübner & Hübner is setting a special accent: four artists from Ghana formulate their perspective on black identity, rich in color and ornamentation, deeply rooted in their own culture as well as in Western modernism.