TOBIAS LEHNER at Union Gallery, London
Rupert found this blurb about him:
Colin Ledwith on Tobias Lehmer:
‘His paintings are the equivalent of channel surfing, or jammed computer screens: the day-glow binary of information broken down to micro-elements and strewn haphazardly in out path. Burts of dissonant coour saturate the surface, contrasts of flat planes bristle with fidgety dabs and hatches. The stillness and formal calm of circles, or neat grids play off against the chaos of expressionistic under-painting. Great submled fields of black and white static mutate into quotes from art history, half-remembered motifs from Miro, Noland, Pollock, Guston, Klee, Dubuffet, Warhol, Motherwell, Basquiat, Picabia, Twonbly, Kippenberger, Polke… Lehner’s method of juxtaposing painted elements allows him the freedom to direct and modify his ingredients at will and set in motion a fast-moving frenzy of interactive fragments.’
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Phew! What a rush and tumble of words; perhaps appropriate. Not sure of the mass trawl of artists as quotations, but maybe. Interesting, anyway.
