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until 22.02. | #4563ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows from 25th January 2025 (Vernissage: 24.01) the exhibition And between us occurs the following conversation by the artist Jerónimo Rüedi.
Jerónimo Rüedi’s works reject representational maneuvers and transcend categories. His is a notably different approach from the current landscape of figurative painting, one of immediate interpretation and quite often literal narratives.
In his unique artistic process — rooted in a sophisticated conceptual basis developed over decades — Rüedi progressively moves away from figuration as a form of mediation with the world, to generate paintings and encaustics that emphasize presence over image. Rüedi paints against the grain of what is immediately identified as painting and considers the medium as the language itself. Its frail traces, like condensed scribbles on notepads, are like records of truncated acts, pointless journeys, and fleeting thoughts that come across the artist’s creative grapple with the empty surfaces of his canvases.
Rüedi, interested in both the craftsmanship of making and the reception of his work, has developed unorthodox methods that captivate the viewer’s gaze and body. He elaborates on seemingly deep surfaces to compose a cosmology —or a language— that rejects artifices from Euclidian representation, vanishing lines, and perspective. His atemporal oeuvre, committed to contemporaneity, resonates with abstract artists such as Hilma af Klint, Kandinsky and Cy Twombly; while nodding to Chinese handscroll painting, cave paintings, and the baroque Chiaroscuro; and incorporates interests sprung from science, syntax, literature, and Zen spirituality.
Originally trained as a sculptor, Rüedi primes his canvases and prepares his paints from the very beginning using raw materials, like resins, beeswax, pigments, binders, each artistic object emerging from a meticulous time-based process. Its elements, arranged in a balance, are reminiscent of Norman Mc Laren’s (1933-1984) animated drawings on celluloid. Behind the random- shapes floating like bioluminescent organisms, lies a controlled gesture that aims to escape order and predictability. Jerónimo Rüedi moves within ambiguity: his opaque paintings confound the senses as if they were backlights with the ability to emit a light that is nothing but phantasmagoric.
In the same manner as his works, the exhibition title And between us occurs the following conversation leaves us with more inquiries than certainties. It echoes the incomplete nature of the absurd and failed message from these beings-paintings more akin to atonal music than to image. Their atmospheric sensuousness that reaches beyond the visible is the enigma that makes us go back to Jerónimo Rüedi’s works repeatedly, seeking interrupted answers that return to the works as new questions.
Jerónimo Rüedi is based in Mexico City since 2015. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1981, studied in Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain, he lived in Berlin before moving to Mexico City.
Vernissage: Friday, January 24, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Artist talk: Friday, January 24, 2025, at 6.30 pm, Jerónimo Rüedi in conversation with Prof. Dr. Daniela Labra (independent curator)
Exhibition dates: Saturday, January 25 – Saturday, February 22, 2025
Image Caption: Oblique, 2024, acrylic, silkscreen and encaustic on aluminum, 45 x 35 cm. Photo by Gerhard Kassner
Exhibition Jerónimo Rüedi – Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
