This exhibition centers on the human figure and the way it is evoked and deconstructed in contemporary painting. Five artists with different backgrounds present works that imagine and (de-)form the human figure, or present otherwise allusions to the body.
The exhibition lends it title from Willem de Kooning, who pointed to short moments of insight -flashes of truth- that can occur while looking at a painting. The figuration in de Kooning’s work is not something that can be pinned down as an objective fact, rather it resides and is hidden in painterly gestures, color marks and abstraction.
Read moreIt comes and goes, is part of the dynamics of perception. This quality can be found in the work of the five participating artists in the exhibition. They acknowledge that the complexity of life cannot be grabbed in a single image of a figure, yet it can be evoked in flashes of insight while looking at painting.
The presented painters show different temperaments, coming from backgrounds across Europe and the US. Yet each of their work harbors a dynamic quality, and an understanding of the paradoxical relationship between painting as a static object on the wall, and reality as being in permanent flux. They do not present the human figure in singularity, but in fragments, suggestive, in flowing relationships, in moments of appearance, in gestures, in deformation. Together the artists show a cross section of contemporary painting in which figuration and abstraction cannot be separated.
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CRITICS’ PICKS: Content is a Glimpse
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Tagesspiegel – Christiane Meixner

Mark Lammert, Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz, David Schutter
Content is a Glimpse

Mark Lammert
Content is a Glimpse

Fiona Rae and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a Glimpse

Fiona Rae
Content is a Glimpse

Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains
2016

Anna Tuori
Thanks, Very Fine
2018

Anna Tuori
Breath Disturbed
2018

Anna Tuori
Prerequisite
Number of Oohs and Aahs (trying to behave) 2018

Anna Tuori, Mark Lammert, David Schutter
Content is a Glimpse

Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains
2017

Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains #1
2016

David Schutter
GSMB W 21
2015

David Schutter
AIC G 219
2014

Fiona Rae
Figure 1l
2014