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FELDBUSCHWIESNER is pleased to present young Leipzig artist BENEDIKT LEONHARDT in his very first solo exhibition.
Leonhardt takes figurative stimuli as a starting point for his paintings and overlays them with multilayered compositions of lines and translucent colour. His materials range from oil, acrylic and vinyl paints to pencils, crayons, adhesive tape and acrylic filler.
Chance, process, and openness shape and characterise his works. They are reminiscent in form to Rothko’s and Barnett Newman’s hypnotic colour fields, Ryman’s monochrome paintings, and the neoplasticism of Piet Mondrian, yet they have a singular strength that is entirely their own.
It is as though Leonhardt’s paintings combine several temporal levels and actions: seeing, forgetting, remembering and rediscovering. The characteristic framing of the pieces brings the concrete materiality and illuminating effect of colour and surface directly to the foreground, while the original idea – an image that is increasingly altered and sublimated through the process of creation – lays shimmering beneath. Thus, the experimental process of painting itself becomes the subject.

Gallery FELDBUSCHWIESNER has been successfully representing young contemporary artists since 2005. The gallery defines itself as a mediator for singular positions and artists who endeavour to follow very individual practices.
We put priority on cooperation and discourse with our artists and collectors, without committing ourselves to any specific artistic practice, and therefore, our exhibitions do not follow predefined thematic guidelines. At least once a year we invite a guest curator and with it open our doors to artists from all over the world.

Since the gallery moved to its current location in 2007, photo- and video art has
become a vital part of our program. In our dedicated video space works of emerging video artists and those who already made their appearance on international platforms are shown throughout the year.

The gallery successfully participated at international art fairs such as ART FORUM, Berlin; ARTEFIERA Bologna; KIAF, Seoul: VIENNAFAIR; ARTE SP, Sao Paolo; ARCO Madrid and PARIS PHOTO, to name a few.

FELDBUSCHWIESNER
Celina Basra
basra@feldbuschwiesner.de
+493069504142
Linienstr. 155
D-10115 Berlin

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