post-title David Moses | Broken Toys | Russi Klenner | 18.01.-01.03.2025

David Moses | Broken Toys | Russi Klenner | 18.01.-01.03.2025

David Moses | Broken Toys | Russi Klenner | 18.01.-01.03.2025

David Moses | Broken Toys | Russi Klenner | 18.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4555ARTatBerlin | Russi Klenner shows from 18. January 2025 (Vernissage 17.01.) the exhibition Broken Toys by the artist David Moses.

Since 2017, artist David Moses has been exploring the Silly Symphonies, Walt Disney’s early cartoons, and exploring how movement and time can be transformed into visual spaces He transfers the filmic events of these cartoons into a new abstract-figurative space on the canvas by fragmenting, drawing and overpainting. Traces of the original remain recognisable, dissolving into an explosion of colour surfaces and lines.

In his new exhibition Broken Toys at the Russi Klenner Gallery, he concentrates on the central characters of his works. He penetrates deeper into their innermost, hidden selves and not only captures their facial expressions and extreme movements, but also scrutinises everything anew by radically dissolving and rebuilding them at the same time. While the visual realisation of music played a central role in the Silly Symphonies, this is also echoed in David Moses’ work. In his new works, rhythm and musicality are reflected in lines and colours that create a poetry of the abstract and convey emotions even more radically and intensely.

ART at Berlin - Galerie Russi Klenner - David Moses - foto Ann Bertram 1

David Moses, not yet titled (after Three Blind Mouseketeers, 1936), 2025, 195 x 240 cm, soft pastels, acrylics and charcoal on canvas

In Broken Toys, David Moses once again poses the question of the essence of painting, abstraction and figuration. He moves confidently between these poles, explores boundaries and establishes an independent, substantial signature – far removed from empty formalism or naïve pop culturalism.

David Moses, born in Bonn in 1983, studied under Prof Valérie Favre at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he received his MFA in 2013. His works have been exhibited at the Kunstverein Ulm and the Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, among others, and can be found in private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, New York and South Korea. A catalogue of his Silly Symphonies was published by Distanz Verlag in 2021.

Vernissage: Friday, 17. January 2025, from 7 pm

Exhibition period: Saturday, 18. January until Saturday, 01. March 2025

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Title image caption: David Moses, Portrait of Ambrose I (after The Robber Kitten, 1935), 110 x 85 cm, 2023-2024, soft pastels, acrylics and charcoal on canvas, Photo: Ann Bertram, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Russi Klenner

Exhibition David Moses – Galerie Russi Klenner | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin

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