Exhibitions

FELDBUSCHWIESNER is pleased to present young Leipzig artist BENEDIKT LEONHARDT in his very first solo exhibition LUMEN.
Leonhardt takes figurative stimuli as a starting point for his paintings and overlays them with multilayered compositions of lines and translucent colour. His materials range from oil, acrylic and vinyl paints to pencils, crayons, adhesive tape and acrylic filler.
Chance, process, and openness shape and characterise his works. They are reminiscent in form to Rothko’s and Barnett Newman’s hypnotic colour fields, Ryman’s monochrome paintings, and the neoplasticism of Piet Mondrian, yet they have a singular strength that is entirely their own.
It is as though Leonhardt’s paintings combine several temporal levels and actions: seeing, forgetting, remembering and rediscovering. The characteristic framing of the pieces brings the concrete materiality and illuminating effect of colour and surface directly to the foreground, while the original idea – an image that is increasingly altered and sublimated through the process of creation – lays shimmering beneath. Thus, the experimental process of painting itself becomes the subject.