Rolf Abendroth's paintings do not show any definable forms; instead, extensive rooms are created through layers and blurrings of the richly applied colours. These appear veiled, transparent, as if the observer can look through the surface into indeterminate spheres. Some spatial indications remind of wide natural landscapes, others of urban sceneries. Sometimes the paintings are condensed into atmospheric spaces of indeterminate nature. The strong contrasts between light and dark open the pictorial space beyond the painting surface. The colour palette of the respective paintings is reduced, whereby Abendroth creates a break through strongly colored interventions. In this way, the dynamic painting gesture turns into a living visual experience and makes the process of creation understandable.

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Artist Statement: 

I work in an open-ended process. Nothing is subject to conscious design – everything arises in the dialogue between movement, material, and moment.

I am fascinated by forms that emerge through gesture, dynamics, construction, destruction, and chance – a continuous experiment that often develops rapidly and finds its own path.

I am not looking for representation or narrative, but for resonance. Color becomes the vehicle for emotion and rhythm, the canvas the counterpart that reacts, resists, and challenges.

In this way, figures, fragments, shadowy beings emerge – suspended between the familiar and the foreign, dream and reality.

Rolf Abendroth

Rolf Abendroth lives and works in Düsseldorf
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