We are pleased to present IT WON’T BE DARK, IT WILL SHINE, a duo show by Christian August and Hirufumi Fujiwa-ra, at Galerie Burster in Karlsruhe. The exhibition is a harmonious blend of sculpture and painting, light and shadow, where each artist, in their own unique way, breaks through the darkness.

Christian August's new landscape paintings are vibrant and effervescent. While his earlier pictorial compositions seem almost 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. Interrupted by spontaneously placed gestures that resemble lightning or stardust, August's colour storms and thunderstorms immerse us in a landscape in flux.

Hirofumi 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.