GALERIE ANJA KNOESS
Cologne, Germany

GALERIE ANJA KNOESS

On display are three artistic positions that deal with historical events and art historical models: it is reference, alienation and alteration, quotation and the transformation into the genuine visual language and materiality.

KINKI TEXAS shows in his complex and multilayered paintings facts & myths of mankind and combines them with comic and punk. He translates historical incidents as well as historical persons into his specific visual language and personal cosmos. The American cowboy stands next to the Grail Knight, the high culture of the Greeks is countered with the trash of the American dream and its superheroes. In the process, the artist addresses classic genres of historical painting as well as the heroic image.

The gallery zombies of ROLAND SCHMITZ, are also bizarrely weird figures, inspired by the blue of Yves Klein or the pool paintings of David Hockney.  Schmitz thematizes the artistic quotation and the current art business, the passionate incorporation of art by artists & collectors. His Reclining Nudes, knotted from bicycle inner tubes and then molded in bronze, also refer with a wink to art historical models such as Henry Moore or Hans Arp.

PEER BOEHM works with the visual memory of humanity and the individual. Historical and contemporary moments such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, or current Black Lives Matter protests, are translated by him into his fragmenting visual language, just as everyday historical photographs of private individuals. Of crucial importance in his images is the blank space, that is, what is not depicted and, if necessary, must be supplemented by the viewer in order to grasp the image content and its meaning.