As part of this year's Gallery Weekend, the gallery BETTER GO SOUTH is showing Grow, the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Dutch painter Karel Dicker. The works shown oscillate between figuration and abstraction, between intuitive gesture and controlled composition.
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Karel Dicker
Dicker's works – still lifes, landscapes, symbolic arrangements – appear both familiar and distant. They are characterised by a formal language that dissolves clear contours in favour of soft, flowing lines.
Cigarettes, glasses or plants are often at the centre of the compositions: everyday objects whose poetic transformation creates a space for reflection on control, change and vulnerability.
The exhibition's central theme is the ambivalence between security and change. In his paintings, Dicker negotiates the tension between the human need for stability and the unavailability of life.
Painting becomes a medium of open-ended searching, a path of trust in the process itself – beyond unambiguous solutions.
Dicker's artistic practice is complemented by delicately carved wooden frames that he makes himself. In contrast to the additive gesture of painting, a form of quiet concentration lies in the reduction of the material – a dialogue between structure and lightness.
- Exhibition opening on Friday, 2 May 2025, from 6:00 to 10:00 pm
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