Galerie Crystal Ball

Oliver Voigt – Mind The Gap!

Opening Friday, 11 October 2019 at 7 p.m.
extended until 2 November 2019, with finissage at 8 p.m.

Oliver Voigt, New York #1, Tusche auf Papier, 2018

Oliver Voigt represents an equally free and modern artistic position. He works in different fields and frees himself from an always same artistic gesture. He works on thematic fields with high concentration, often developing the necessary production techniques and strategies in the respective medium.

For “Mind the Gap”, the artist has now developed an aesthetic methodology that circumscribes the tonal values ??of the quoted images in numbers, which are then transferred with ink on paper. The basis of the pictures are newspaper photos, photographs of the victims of attacks and terror. Disturbing images, their content, their inherent brutal violence and contempt we are barely able to endure.

In this way, Oliver Voigt is convinced that in our social context we often already unconsciously work on distancing ourselves from certain pictures and messages and no longer “see” the images exactly. But it is about a personal, as pictorial approach. By analyzing the pictures analytically, getting them to himself and turning them into a mosaic, he can approach them. The interesting thing about this analytical, technical work of the artist is that he recreates exactly this created gap, the incomprehensible and makes it visible.


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