It's a Match

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Florian Fausch’s paintings are transitions from geometrical, architectural structures into deep color fields and gradients. His contrasting luminous colors can also be found in the hybrid sculptures of Beate Höing, who combines objets trouvés virtuosically with her own ceramic objects.

„Florian Fausch’s images are utopian architectural landscapes that follow rules of their own; they are places and non-places all at once, revolving around the concept of the image. Clear-cut sharp lines define architectural elements that in turn disappear into immaterial motifs. This creates a simultaneity of different levels and painting styles. The angular forms are reminiscent of the collage or stencil cutting techniques used for geometric compositions.

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For Florian Fausch, architecture becomes the abstraction of color. Space and the impression of depth are the result of the deliberate use of an unusual, contrastingly vibrant color palette, but also due to the special style of painting. He applies the oil paint in thin, transparent layers on top of each other, so that the different layers of the image are visible. At certain points, the canvas still shows through and allows a glimpse of the background. Through these layers of paint with their blank spaces, the image becomes tangible in its physicality. At the same time, the painter succeeds in creating an illusory effect in the image composition, so that real and simulated space meet. His compositions testify to a specific interest in the fringes of painting.“

Katrin Weilemann (excerpt)

„Beate Höing—inspired by the ornamental and the textural material used in the cultural-historical folk art of fairy tales and myths as well as of traditions and rituals—took up these influences in her painting and ceramic work. Out of them she has created her own autonomous iconography. Hereby already inherent,associated and recollected images come together in an ambivalent game of reality and fiction where dreams and nightmares, relief and dread lie side by side. Materiality and form are thus inseparably linked. Furthermore the artist’s oil paintings and ceramic sculptures, including her installations, tell of a passion for the beauty, the delicacy and the aesthetics of things as well as of a playful lust for all innate possibilities.“

Jutta Meyer zu Riemsloh (excerpt)