We are excited to announce our participation in Enter Art Fair – you will find us at booth 8 presenting works by Enrico Bach, Alex Feuerstein, Hirofumi Fujiwara, Maria Schumacher and Christian August. See you in Copenhagen! 

Enrico Bach's compositions are characterized by the division of the pictorial space into two halves. A picture-within-a-picture principle in which each side stands on its own and yet corresponds with the other half. The layered areas of color and pattern thus create the illusion of a more or less deep space. At the same time, Bach leaves behind the conventional compositional pattern of a centered motif: the picture's edge, ground and interfaces become depth-giving design levels.

The compositions in Feuerstein's paintings show abstract scenes that oscillate between fiction and reality. Banal perspectives change into dream-like sequences that are left so wide open and alienated that they can neither be clearly assigned in time nor in space: Is it the sun that shines there or perhaps the moon after all? Are the bizarrely billowing loops plumes of smoke or thunderclouds?

Fujiwara's figures, pre-modeled from clay and cast in plastic, rest within themselves. In contemplative poses, his sculptures, each one unique, stand, sit or lie in space, sometimes surrounded by transparent acrylic glass panes, their gaze directed into the indefinite. The reduced coloring of their skin, hair, and clothing leaves the materiality and physicality of his figures even more attention.

In her paintings, the artist deals with the creation of narrative-psychological spaces within which she explores the complexity of relationship structures and, more generally, the fundamental questions of human existence. States such as loneliness, fear, grief, love and sexuality and their universal nature preoccupy her just as much as the use of patterns, ornamental arrangements and the ritualistic charging of signs and symbols. The forms and figures depicted by Schumacher can have different effects depending on how they are viewed and are particularly multi-layered.

Christian August's new landscape paintings are vibrant and effervescent. While his earlier pictorial compositions seem al-most weightless, without top and bottom, time and space, thus evoking associations of an idealised idea of the universe, August is now back on earth in his latest colour landscapes. More precisely, they exist in a mysterious in-between world: new ecosystems emerge on the canvases between sky and earth, darkness and light, spring and winter, day and night. In-terrupted by spontaneously placed gestures that resemble lightning or stardust, August's colour storms and thunderstorms immerse us in a landscape in flux.