THOMAS EGGERER – ASPHALT
2018-12-03In Thomas Eggerer’s new paintings realists and naturalists alike seem to mocked. There is no need for x-rays. What lies
underneath is perfectly clear. But, imagine a naturalist staring at a manhole. That sentence sounds like the opening line of
a joke. Eggerer makes sensing what’s underneath go to shit, and formally he does so quite inescapably. Our realist and
naturalist gazes are affixed to the lids covering civilization’s underworld. In earlier works we were placed vis-à-vis mass
scenes of aimless production, or groupings of apathetic leisure. But here, in these close-ups, such disenchanted allusions
to socially acceptable motifs of life’s (re)production are no longer at hand to offer orientation.
Opposite – Happy Meal Pattern, 2018
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2019
GGalerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
