MAXWELL DUNLOP | MASCH | PETRA RINTELEN | MARTIN STOMMEL
July 12th – 7 September 7th 2024 | janinebeangallery, Berlin
opening reception: July 12th, 6 – 8 pm
Seasoned Summer
With this exhibition janinebeangallery celebrates the fascination and richness of contemporary painting. Under the theme „Seasoned Summer“ we present artworks by Maxwell Dunlop, MASCH, Petra Rintelen and Martin Stommel.
The atmospheric paintings of the American artist Maxwell Dunlop take away the viewers to a world full of gravity and timelessness. His works show both expansive natural landscapes and magnificent interiors from past eras that radiate a unique tension and silence.
MASCH, an artist born in the Rhineland (Germany) in the 1950s, impresses with his drawings and paintings through a fascinating variety of shapes, colors and techniques. In their clear formal language, MASCH’s figures combine an enigmatic simplicity similar to that of archaic geoglyphs with wit and a love of storytelling straight from everyday life.
Strange gestures and symbols are thus quite naturally coupled with human closeness and down-to-earthness. This makes MASCH’s works as accessible as they are multi- layered and, particularly in this combination, extremely fascinating.
Petra Rintelen focuses on the expression of life and things in her paintings, exploring mythical and dreamlike moments in an unpretentious fusion of movement and stillness. Her paintings show a well-thought-out color composition that unites shadow and light in a harmonious balance.
Martin Stommel, the fourth artist in the exhibition, brings a unique perspective and style that enriches the overall picture of the exhibition. Martin Stommel’s paintings are a statement in the unrest of the world; a path, an attempt to find a way from
the inferno to paradise. His lighting, the visionary compositions full of tension and drama, their expansive diagonals and
gestures, the elongated bodies of the actors in his pictures all lead from the everyday to the question of meaning. In his pictures the world, the changeable luck bursts, and fate roars in the eternal song of the world’s riddles.
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