grids and grooves - Galerie Johannes Geymüller, Essen

Opening: 28.01.2010

Duration: 29.01. - 27.02.2010

(…) At the same time, the artist cedes authority to the viewer and the serial work. He decentralises the subject, so to speak, withdrawing himself to the minimal variation of rhythm and cultivating extremely economical painterly techniques. In fact, it is precisely this simultaneous empowerment of viewer and object that leads to an independent position within the virulent debate on the character of aesthetic perception that has been going on since the Enlightenment. Contemporary abstraction, as understood by Pedro Boese, can and will no longer allow itself to be confined within this ideological dispute. It knows its roots, is aware of the historical artistic positions on both sides of the Atlantic and does not close itself off to non-European ideas.

The grey images of grids and grooves, whose beauty has its origins in the simultaneity of geometry and order, simplicity and repetition, seriousness, discipline, harmony and statics, logic and transcendence, do not convey a clearly defined message. They are open to the most diverse memories, some images are unsettling, some are extremely rational and remain distant, but as a series they achieve a possibly lasting synthesis.

Text: Susanne Prinz - Abstract from the essay grids and grooves, 2008

Press: WAZ 29.01.2010