Painting and lightbox objects
In Peter and Torsten Ruehle's paintings, places themselves become the content: space and landscape emerge anew as autonomous territories through the viewer's gaze and experience.
Peter Ruehle's pictures open up old conventions in landscape painting. His mostly monochrome scenes are conceptual structures that merge with perception through lines. A bold horizon cuts through the panorama and creates expanse and even sublime distance. Linear patterns create tension between geometric abstraction and atmospheric forms - metaphysical spaces unfold, as it were. In one of his latest paintings, Peter Ruehle transforms the view of Neubrandenburg into a never-before-seen and luminous urban space on a black background.
Torsten Ruehle works with lines and light in illuminated boxes, which often show interior spaces. In his backlit, scenic interiors, people seem to have just disappeared: carpets with shoe tracks, cushions with body shapes. You think you can feel warmth, smell a fragrance or hear words spoken through the glass walls or very soft music. The light box objects underline the magical character of these atmospheric archives, in which fragments of landscapes appear and spaces for new things emerge.
Both artists create spatial wonders, which the audience then mixes with their own worlds and leads them down unexpected paths. The spaces confront us with strange continuity and temporal dissonance. How long this moment lasts depends crucially on what one intends to do with it - and how one determines one's own location.
