Painting for the 29th Saisonstart
Painting is the oldest form of art in human history and continues to be strongly represented in Frankfurt's galleries to this day. To Saisonstart , Galerie Bärbel Grässlin Saisonstart new works from the "Etcetera Series" by minimalist artist and Beuys student Imi Knoebel (born in Dessau in 1940). Like some of the groups of works created in recent years, the paintings in this new series are painted with acrylic on solid aluminum panels. Mark Dickenson, who Saisonstart in Saisonstart for the first time with his gallery Neue Alte Brücke, is also showing new photorealistic-abstract oil paintings by British artist Will Daniels.
Under the questioning title "AI – Artistic Intelligence | Zeitgeist?", Galerie Hübner & Hübner is presenting new, contrasting trends in the paintings of Ulrich Diekmann and Xue Liu in a double exhibition. Another graduate of the Städelschule and master student of Tobias Rehberger can be encountered at Kunsthandel with the "High Intensity Paintings" by Janus Hochgesand.
Luxurious design classics, deserted village idylls, studio views, and self-portraits—through the eyes and handwriting of the artists, they pay homage to everyday life. The exhibition #artiststowatch at Galerie Egenolff (E30) brings together the latest generation of contemporary artists from Alanus University in Alfter.
Vietnamese-born artist Nguyen Xuan Huy reveals his mastery and thematic depth of classical European painting at Galerie Rothamel. He came to Germany at the age of seventeen, obtained his high school diploma, and studied at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. His paintings in "Hybris" are compositionally multi-layered and narratively complex.
Margarete Zahn at Kunstraum Bernusstraße has been working with the St. Andrew's cross and its potential for artistic representation for more than 25 years. The artist depicts this X-shape in a wide variety of creative variations - in different formats both as a three-dimensional object made of wood and as a two-dimensional painting on canvas or paper.
To Saisonstart , Die Galerie Grässlin Die Galerie is exhibiting Saisonstart "Ecetera" series of works by Imi Knoebel.
Noah Kauertz, "Something for your collection," oil on canvas, 80×60cm, 2023 (Egenolff (E30) Gallery).
Janus Hochgesand, Untitled, 2023, oil and pigment on canvas, 100x80cm, photo by Kunsthandel .
Margarete Zahn's objects and pictures deal with the St. Andrew's Cross, on display until September 30 at Kunstraum Bernusstraße.
