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bis 10.05. | #4639ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows fom 12. April 2025 (Opening: 11.04.) the exhibition Sustainable Dope by the artist DAG.
In DAG’s latest paintings on canvas, signs can be seen in transparent layers of colour. The Laura Mars Gallery is showing these works from 12 April to 10 May 2025.
DAG’s paintings consist of structures, shapes and patterns from the everyday world as well as layered media elements. They are created by working directly on the canvas, reworking image zones and adapting compositions. DAG combines colour and structure on the canvas. The geometric forms and constructions that characterised his earlier works are less dominant in the new paintings, giving way to open areas and graphic elements. Several pictorial layers overlap and create a non-illusionistic, abstract spatiality. The structures and forms are in a process of creation and change. According to Bernhard Waldenfels, there is a marked point in the visible that emphasises its visibility.
DAG’s painting developed from rapid painting performances that he practised in the mid-1990s. During this phase, he trained his sense of constellations, rhythm and dynamics. Since the 2000s, he has been experimenting with various materials, which he often finds in DIY stores instead of artists’ supplies. He deals with structures, forms and patterns as they occur in architecture, as well as with the transience of music or language. He translates these elements into abstract forms and realises them in his compositions.
Text: Ulrike Pennewitz
Opening: Friday, 11 April 2025 at 7 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 12 April – Saturday, 10 May 2025
Bildunterschrift: DAG, Florastrasse, 2025, mixed media on canvas, 120 x 140 cm
Ausstellung DAG – Laura Mars Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien | ART at Berlin
