Christoph Roßner - Bright Eyes, Dirty Hair
Halsey McKay Gallery
Soloshow
09.04.-08.05.16

“In a borderland between representation and abstraction, depiction and association, Christoph Roßner captures his motifs. Exaggerations, gaps and voids complete his ambiguous compositions, and raze the hierarchy of foreground and background, inside and out. With an affinity for still life, landscape, and other classical subjects, Roßner’s pictures spin outlandish narratives beyond naturalistic representation. The artist makes use of a staged incapacity: figures appear in childlike reduction, proportions are grossly distorted, emblematic objects are abstracted and extrapolated, perspective is exaggerated beyond any one vantage point. Finding inspiration in his surrounding environment and the arrangement of objects such as vases, lamps, knives, and things invented, Roßner uses painting to create an atmosphere of concentrated tranquility, otherworldliness, and melancholia.”