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Noah Kauertz - Solo Show

With his new series of works, “Can’t See the Forest for the Trees,” Noah Kauertz is embarking on a new chapter in his artistic practice: landscape painting. Theatrical compositions emerge from a multi-layered process - digital collages, physical dioramas made of cardboard and paper, strategic lighting, and finally, classical oil painting. Influences from art history, pop culture, and AI flow into the work just as much as personal memories: of prickly pears in Mallorca, of hiding spots in his grandmother’s garden, of Mediterranean landscapes. The images oscillate between still life and landscape, between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, between analog and digital - deliberately placed “errors” bear witness to this interplay. A reduced, clear color palette characterizes the new works and places them in dialogue with Kauertz’s earlier works.

From the artist: "The paintings are shaped by a crucial image-finding phase: I approach a motif through digital collages; in the next step, physical models (similar to dioramas) are created from cardboard and paper, which are staged with lighting to be photographed again and further collaged. A reciprocal process between analog and digital, until it comes to the actual craft of painting. This approach to the image-finding process allows me to draw from a smorgasbord of images of all kinds (displayed as a pinboard in the studio, all printed out). I am no longer reliant on a single photo shoot. The various image sources that come together in a work are united both through the physical model and the painting itself."

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Noah Kauertz