International painting
In her art, Isabelle Borges explores the relationship between space, order, and perception (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.
At 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, who is exhibiting at the new FILIALE (Stiftstraße 9), interlocking rooms and picture surfaces in such a way that painting and architecture become inseparably intertwined.
Die Galerie Bärbel Grässlin continues its Secundino Hernández on a familiar name—this is already 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, a 2017 participant in documenta in Kassel, is featured at the Monica Ruppert , transforms canonical visual worlds into a painterly present. At the Raphael Raphael , Mickaël Doucet imaginary spaces in which the painterly serves as an invitation to dream. And in the Westend the gallery Hübner & Hübner is highlighting a special theme: Four artists from Ghana express their perspectives on Black identity—vibrant in color, rich in ornamentation, and deeply rooted in both their own culture and Western modernism.
