In the new exhibition at the neurotitan gallery, drawings, paintings and prints by the three Hanover-based artists Martin Grobecker, Christopher Balassa and Christoph Sander come together to create a subversive and wild cosmos of images. The figurative, representational depiction and its exciting juxtaposition of the respective artists' positions is central here: Mystical, shadowy figures meet grotesque cartoon creatures or menacingly grinning old men's faces.
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Alchemic "Vampires from Venus"
The exhibition Alchemic Vampires from Venus is similar to a cut-up novel by William S. Burroughs, in which seemingly disparate elements and motifs are combined to create something new.
Similar to Burroughs' novel “Nova Express”, the title “Alchemic Vampires from Venus” summarises the intention of combining a wide variety of elements and motifs to create something irritatingly new. Viewers are encouraged to make their own connections and associations between the works, even with deliberate misinterpretations in mind.
The most obvious intersection between the three artists' positions is the figurative representation, sometimes packaged as a subversive pictorial punchline with supposedly superficial humour, then again as an exuberant and detailed pictorial puzzle with bizarre excesses. The approaches and pictorial ideas of the three artists differ just as much as their artistic practice: Christopher Balassa realises his works exclusively in small formats on photographic paper as paintings, Christoph Sander, on the other hand, prefers to realise his graphics using linocuts, while Martin Grobecker produces his graphic works as detailed screen prints.
