Thomas Arnolds | RUN (Fraktale) | KLEMM’S | 11.01.-22.02.2025

“With RUN (Fraktale), Klemm’s presents Thomas Arnolds’ second solo exhibition at the gallery. On display are six of the latest works from the extensive RUN series, which Arnolds has consistently updated and reworked in ever new chapters since 2018. He expands existing chapters, reconfigures or interweaves them anew, and continues to develop his painterly cosmos, which oscillates between abstraction and figuration.

For RUN (Fraktale), Arnolds has created three monumental, multicoloured oil paintings and three smaller, nearly monochromatic works in shades of grey, black, and olive green. The figurative pictorial vocabulary he developed in recent years that was previously contrasted with large monochromatic surfaces, is in these newest works either interwoven with abstract, multicoloured, densely layered backgrounds or entirely pushed out of the picture.”

RUN (WURZEL) 2, 2024, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, detail

“Above all, the pictorial elements and artistic techniques used here serve him as an opportunity to deal with the fundamental questions of painting. He seeks to explore the limits and possibilities of abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, painting and graphic art, architecture and nature, as well as to establish a steadfast position for himself in the classical debate between the arts and the history of painting.”

Friederike Schuler

Works by Thomas Arnolds have also recently been added to the collections of the Kunstmuseum in Bonn and the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren.

Opening: Saturday, 11. January 6 – 9 pm