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until 03.06. | #3902ARTatBerlin |Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Henning Strassburger.
Contemporary Fine Arts is excited to present Henning Strassburger’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his new paintings, Strassburger seems to abandon abstraction in favor of the human body, one of the main interests of figurative art. And yet, the paintings depict bodies underwater, bodies in the shower, and at the pool. Always looking away, the protagonists hide their intimate parts, caught in vulnerable moments one would rather not be caught in. They are as fluid as the water itself. In bright pink, blue and yellow, Strassburger creates staged settings where uneventful and everyday activities excite as if taken from a film. Grids become bathroom tiles, splashes become bathtubs and hot tubs. As the bodies within dissolve or are just about to, they consist only of individual parts at its most extreme.
“I wanted to paint situations that can resolve in any direction. Just as “The Hedonist” stands rather awkwardly under the jet of water that starts somewhere above the painting. The scenes are then captured in the “unphotogenic” moment, if you will. Like in photos that you would sort out because you had pulled the trigger at the wrong moment.”
Henning Strassburger.
Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April until Saturday, 3. June 2023.
Image Caption: Henning Strassburger, Der Eine-Minute-Satyr, 2023. Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin. Photo: Nick Ash
Exhibition Henning Strassburger – CFA Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
