MATTHIAS DORNFELD 

MATTHIAS DORNFELD lightblue top, 2008 acrylic, crayons + pencil on paper on canvas 80 x 60cm

Ancient & Modern presents a selection of new paintings by Berlin-based painter Matthias Dornfeld in what will be his first exhibition in Britain.
Matthias Dornfeld’s paintings have a seemingly uninhibited approach to gesture and colour. Yet neither naive nor intuitive, they are carefully orchestrated. His subjects conciously verge on cliché, incorporating still-lifes of flowers, landscapes, portraits, ships and vases. The saturated colour of Dornfeld’s paintings is held in the shapes and spaces created through the interlacing of drawing in paint. They hold a balance between the compulsive urge for free expression and a self-contained search for the subject that lies beneath the surface of the canvas. His approach varys only in scale – from drawings that sit in the hand to expansive dioramas spanning walls.