STEFAN SEHLER

"NEW PAINTINGS"

Opening Reception: Friday, 18 January, 2008, 7pm
Duration: 19 January through 1 March, 2008
Opening Hours: Tue-Sat 12-7 pm

On first glance, the work of Stefan Sehler looks like photography. Yet his complex arrangements of natural motifs are pure painting. His work is characterized by a balance between concrete representation and abstract painting; the paint is applied flowingly within the outlines of a fixed shape on the back of a plane of acrylic glass. Stefan Sehler composes his works from individual elements, thus creating models of what is represented and projection surfaces for terms like “beauty, idyll, or romanticism,” as the artist puts it.

Works by Stefan Sehler can be seen in the exhibition “Idylle: Traum und Trugschluss”, which, after stops at Sammlung Falckenberg and DA2 in Salamanca, is currently being shown at Städtische Galerie Remscheid. In addition, Musée d‘Art Contemporain Marseille is now showing a selection of his work.

Exhibition 2003

Exhibition 2005