Paintings by Thomas Gatzemeier and in the cabinet "Sensuality from Manufactory and Craft"
The GOLDWERK GALERIE presents the Leipzig painter Thomas Gatzemeier in the personal exhibition "Offene Partitur" from November 15, 2025. It shows a concentrated selection of his versatile painterly oeuvre.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the painting "Night" from 2003, in which body, space and dream world are interwoven into a dense visual language. Dark tones, detached forms and an almost floating composition lend the work a special heaviness, which is, however, repeatedly offset by subtle painterly nuances.
It is complemented by fragmentations in which organic forms and torsos break up, as well as by sheets on antique contour paper, which demonstrate Gatzemeier's joy in experimenting with drawing and painting: Sometimes the visual language is condensed to the point of monumentality, sometimes it opens up to playful, almost dance-like variations. Currently, sheets from the "Insecta Poetica" series continue along this path and combine observation of nature with art-historical references.
Eduard Beaucamp remarked about Gatzemeier's work that it "knows no stylistic coherence, but rather vitalistic rhythms": it is precisely this alternation of gravitas and lightness, of concentration and freedom that characterizes the exhibition in Rostock. In the rooms of the GOLDWERK GALERIE, a panorama is thus created that makes the diversity of his artistic approach vividly tangible: the deliberately condensed setting allows the connections to become visible precisely through the reduction to individual aspects. Thomas Gatzemeier works non-conformistically with the impetus of modernism and asserts his work as an open score in which every line and every surface refers to the whole.
"Gatzemeier surprises with leaps and abrupt turns."
Eduard Beaucamp
