Louisa Elderton

Kito Nedo

The Dissolution of the Object. At first glance, Eberhard Havekost's work is determined by discontinuity. Some of his latest paintings from 2017-2019 are almost perfect in their appreciation of realism. The kangaroo on the title fixes its eyes on the viewer; it appears blinded by the bright light, possibly the headlights of a car. Its body is frozen, the pose an anticipation of rigor mortis. Some paintings are abstract, combining dynamic and gestural brushstrokes with the scraping-off of paint. In other pictures, colors such as a bright orange, lemon yellow and scarlet are smudged, suggesting a smoky mist. Then again, a sulfurous green again appears almost uniform and thus a little yellowish, as if it were seeping acridly, stifling and biting through the canvas. The process of painting becomes a chemical process when Eberhard Havekost removes layer upon layer of paint with turpentine, in fact liquefying it again, in order to seemingly dissolve it. The images by Eberhard Havekost thus go beyond reality. They revolve around the dissolution of the object, since his work is about reconstruction, seeing something and rebuilding it. Yet the image remains flat, is not just imagination, but remains an object, soft and hence open to various meanings. Exhibition: CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 26/4-1/6/2019.

Kat. CFA Berlin

Eberhard Havekost: U Say Love

Marc Ries

The canvas is his backdrop. Titus Schade (*1984 in Leipzig), former master student of Neo Rauch, paints complex and enraptured pictorial worlds that seem as controlled as they are unique. Half-timbered buildings, windmills, churches, and crude buildings from the nineteen-sixties seem strangely flattened and cut out, as if lacking volume. They inhabit a space where conventional perspectives have become lost. The painted buildings?whether lined up in a shelving unit or against the darkness of an inky black surface?form a kind of magical locality that can be entered with the eyes, though hardly described in words. This monograph brings together an extensive selection of these unique works, created in the period between 2009 and 2016. It invites us to encounter Schade?s backdrop-like paintings and to wander through their spaces of illusion.00.

Kito Nedo

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