Ausstellungseröffnung „Spot on ... Franz Werk & Johannes Traub"

In the organizer's words:

x23 Gallery | x23 art & projects presents:

Franz Werk - Violence and Aesthetics

Franz Werk's painting moves between classical iconography and the urban present. He paints on aluminum or stainless steel with paint that is not only applied but also removed, etched and disturbed in the process. The result is both an image and a violation - a play between surface and substance.

The works show a fascination for the tragic, for destruction as part of human history and sentiment. As in mythology or art history, the dark is not suppressed, but made visible - as something that touches, disturbs and at the same time reveals beauty.

Johannes Traub

Since 1995, Johannes Traub has been developing a visual language in which archaic figures meet geometrically abstracted landscapes. The focus is often on the carrier - an emblematic figure that embodies states such as dignity, excessive demands and attitude.

The tectonically constructed spaces act as mental architectures, inner topographies. This creates pictorial spaces that are both contemplative and disturbing.

Traub's landscapes and urban fragments radiate a quiet, subliminally restless atmosphere. They reflect a fragile world full of silence, waiting and the unspoken - a restraint that generates strong emotional pictorial power.