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Jochen Plogsties:
KISSES IN THE AFTERNOON
28 May - 10 July 2021
ARTES Berlin presents for the first time in a solo show new works by painter Jochen Plogsties, born in Cochem an der Mosel in 1974.
In the galleries, we are displaying Gerhard Richter and Marion Eichmann.
Plogsties studied under Friedemann Hahn at the Kunsthochschule Mainz, as well as Arno Rink and Neo Rauch at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Key images of art history and contemporary photography are always the subject of his work.
Most recently, Jochen Plogsties was awarded the PARADIGMA Blickwechsel Art Prize (2019). Numerous of his works can be found in private and public collections, such as the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, the Kunstfonds of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Zbludowicz Collection in London. Exhibitions at venues including the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover (2014), the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Oder (2019) testify to the artist's institutional relevance.
Plogsties often uses canonised, art-historical subjects as source material and transfers them to the present by composing surfaces that are not brimming with precision but rather working with textured grains, figurations caught between dissolution and emergence, and a loose style.
Thus, his oeuvre is like a painterly exploration of the perception of reality and atmosphere, with the canvas serving as a semi-permeable membrane or permeable skin.
Plogsties poses questions about traditional composites, the aesthetics of organisational structures, and iconographic legibility. He approaches a possible answer to the question through a quasi-crystalline pattern. The kaleidoscope-like construct originates from the Persian theory of 5-point geometry.
Plogsties developed the working method of this basic ornamental structure from the painting "The Love Spell" by an unknown Lower Rhine master from 1480. When these historical representations are transferred into contemporary art, they are always an exploration of the legibility of the subjects. Jochen Plogsties lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
