Oliver Dehn. LANDGANG

Oliver Dehn paintings are anti traditionalist postures rooted in tradition. They are allegories for the intimate relation between truth and imagination. Dehns’ works are a source of imaginative dexterity that provides a container for the aftershock from the processes of painting itself. Such aftershocks are a confirmation when art reproduces some life event or situation of individual interest, most perceptibly in the chronicles of literature, theater or film. These aftershocks are also present in works that are apparently fixed, a representation, and this is particularly true for painting. Landscapes, still lives, portraits and allegorical motifs have the same imminence and pleasure with visual impression as other media. As in Dehns' work, which carries a truth strengthening of knowledge: the thorough, dark tradition of the brush that searches for a view that conveys a certain attachment to a truth that has its ownnuances and an ecology where it turn out to be uncanny, grotesque, or turns the infinite abstract sovereignty against all the sensations to fashion an expression that materializes a different kind of knowledge, a different kind of truth, not of populace but of the complex architecture and ecology that is an evolution of the practice of painting itself, to mature and allow for freeadjustment of chromatics and motifs. Seumas Railbéart Coutts Ph.D.

Vernissage 18 Mai 17-23Uhr Finissage 16 Juni 17-23Uhr

Oliver Dehn
LANDGANG