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Painting a New Concept
of the Painting Concept
Regarding the Multiples by
Andreas Paeslack

by Peter Fabian, 2003

Andreas Paeslack deals with the "debit and credit" aspect of the painting concept: What is a painting meant to depict in the future and what is its role in contemporary art? In his view, "the promise of the academy of arts to find answers for important questions by means of paintings" can no longer be held. In his works, the painting in its traditional sense remains blank. Yet, the "iconoclast's" contemplation and action deals almost inevitably with the painting or with the painting concept.

During his university studies (in the painting class of the University of Fine Arts in Dresden), Paeslack would comment on the works of old masters by emphasising their external characteristics (e.g. gold frame), by referring to the spaces within the painting (using "objects to fill the spaces") or to the base materials of the paintings (untreated canvass and theme design of the exhibition walls).

 
   
       
  Artists of the Artikel-Editionen:

Irene Andessner (A)www.andessner.com
. Andessner, Irene / Kneidl, Helga (A / D) 
Art D’Sign () 
Thomas Baumgärtel (D)www.banansprayer.de
Anton Bemann (D) 
Marinella Biscaro (I) 
Bazon Brock (D)www.bazonbrock.de
Jürgen Brodwolf (D) 
Olivier Christinat (D) 
Kiddy Citny (D)www.artpark.de
Piotr Dluzniewski (D) 
Reinhard Doubrawa (D) 
Christoph Ebener (D)www.raumschiff-interactive.de
Gerold Fink (A)www.geroldfink.at
Christian Frosch (D)www.christian-frosch.de
Astrid Giers (D) 
Jürgen Heinert (D) 
Marikke Heinz-Hoek (D) 
Volker Hildebrandt (D)www.volkerhildebrandt.com
Ottmar Hörl (D)www.ottmarhoerl.de
Jürgen Klauke (D) 
Kirsten Klöckner (D)www.edition-kloeckner.com
Vollrad Kutscher (D)www.euro-pan.com
Jolene König (D) 
Coco Kühn (D) 
Dieter Lahme (D) 
Barbara Loomis (D) 
Annelies Oberdanner (A) 
C.O. Paeffgen (D) 
Andreas Paeslack (D) 
Ben Patterson (D) 
Andrea Peckedrath (D) 
Claudia Pilsl (GB) 
Ren Rong (D) 
Dieter Roth (CH) 
Pavel Schmidt (D) 
Monika Seidel (D) 
Valeria Sovaradi (H) 
Barbara Szüts (D)www.szuets.de
Hans-Hermann T. (I) 
Richard Tipping (AUS) 
Alexander C. Totter (D/E) 
Timm Ulrichs (D) 
Lisette Verkerk (NL) 
Photograph: Peter Fabian, 2001
 

Andreas Paeslack


Born in 1966 in Weimar, lives in Berlin. 1990/91: University for Graphic Arts and Book Crafts, Leipzig. 1991 – 1999: University for Fine Arts, Dresden. Exhibitions and projects since 1995, among others with courtesy of Galerie Fine Art Rafael Vostell, Berlin (»Öffentlich«, 1997), as well as Galerie Kaiserwerke, both in Gera, Art Museum Weimar/Collection Paul Maenz (»Katzengold«, 2002), Goethe Institute Tel Aviv (»Show Your Wound«, 2003). Since 2005 several projects mit Bazon Brock (»Im Namen der Kunst« u.a.), Boris Groys, Gernot Böhme and Harald Lesch. 2007: Co-editor and author »Das Vermögen der Kunst« (The assets of fine arts), Böhlau Publishers Cologne/Vienna, 2007.