Painting and woodcut are in dialog in the exhibition "VERBLENDUNG".
As a third voice, the centuries-old fortress joins the conversation with its stories of crumbling power and desperate protectionism. The impressive works can be seen until September 21.
The artist's figurative paintings trigger narratives and show moments just before something could happen. Nobody has fallen yet, the bullet has not yet come loose. Only the viewer's imagination dissolves the subjunctive and turns the moments into history. How much tragedy or humor they contain is up to them.
Philip Angermaier lives and works in Groß Schmölen near Dömitz. He is fascinated by how color, form and perception interact, how new perspectives and states open up and constantly change. The process and the accidental play an essential role here. They were also what led him to printmaking. Here he was able to try out numerous techniques, experiments and materials and give free rein to the process.
The woodcut stands out in particular due to its resistant materiality and the possibility of using it expressively. The wood also has something warm and vibrant about it. Angermaier uses the "lost form" in his woodcuts. Here, a single printing plate is repeatedly reworked, printed and overprinted. Complexity and spatiality are created by superimposing numerous, sometimes up to fourteen, layers of color.
The exhibition is open Wednesdays to Sundays from 11 am to 3 pm. The museum and information center of the Biosphere Reserve River Landscape Elbe M-V are also accessible.
