Andriu Deplazes: BLIND IN THE SEA WEEDS Paintings and drawings Curated by Celena Ohmer

About

Andriu Deplazes creates paintings that live on dichotomy and flowing transitions, in terms of both form and content. They change between small and large formats, intensive colouration and gloom, apparent naturalness and artificiality, the familiar and the unknown, intimacy and distance.

Characteristic of his style is a dynamic, open and simultaneously controlled painterly flow that mixes soft, pronounced and brown-toned light and dark with garish or luminescent oil paints containing fluorescent pigments, and that avoids the idealisation of bodies. From the colour compositions, dominated by the complementary colours of red and blue, there unfolds a tension that can be read as extending to aggression at times.