What Time Is It?
Skarstedt is pleased to announce What time is it?, the exhibition of works by three artists presenting the new generation of abstract painters in Germany - Peppi Bottrop, Andreas Breunig and Jana Schr枚der. Portraying complex networks of lines and colour fields, each body of work appears to follow its own internal logic, fusing the analytical approach to abstraction with the unpredictability of a single meandering line. Employing inside jokes, personal memories or self-imposed rules in their compositions, the artists avoid overt messaging whilst alerting the viewer to the aesthetic and social context of the present moment.
What time is it? is a question which mimics the evasive intelligence permeating the works of Bottrop, Breunig and Schr枚der. One of the first sentences one commonly absorbs in an English language class, it is an essential and universal unit of a routine conversation, which simultaneously speaks to some of the most complex issues of human existence. From the notion of historical progress to the nature of time per se, the question in the title also evokes the artist鈥檚 distinct methods of renewing the painting from within and evaluating its place in contemporary culture. Straddling the mundane and profound, the phrase invites both an immediate response and extended deliberation, cohering with the visual experience of the works on view
Recommended for you
Skarstedt is pleased to announce What time is it?, the exhibition of works by three artists presenting the new generation of abstract painters in Germany - Peppi Bottrop, Andreas Breunig and Jana Schr枚der. Portraying complex networks of lines and colour fields, each body of work appears to follow its own internal logic, fusing the analytical approach to abstraction with the unpredictability of a single meandering line. Employing inside jokes, personal memories or self-imposed rules in their compositions, the artists avoid overt messaging whilst alerting the viewer to the aesthetic and social context of the present moment.
What time is it? is a question which mimics the evasive intelligence permeating the works of Bottrop, Breunig and Schr枚der. One of the first sentences one commonly absorbs in an English language class, it is an essential and universal unit of a routine conversation, which simultaneously speaks to some of the most complex issues of human existence. From the notion of historical progress to the nature of time per se, the question in the title also evokes the artist鈥檚 distinct methods of renewing the painting from within and evaluating its place in contemporary culture. Straddling the mundane and profound, the phrase invites both an immediate response and extended deliberation, cohering with the visual experience of the works on view
Artists on show
