The exhibition shows works by artist  Imi Knoebel from the last twenty years. In addition to three large paintings  Först Aid I, II, III, shown for the first time, the exhibition also includes  works from the Love Child series, a Standing Painting and framed  etc. works.  

For the first time, Imi Knoebel  presents the paintings Först Aid III, II, I from 2004, which hang side by  side in the back room of the gallery. While two works are monochrome in bright  red or yellow, the middle one combines both colors, but the expressive  application of paint is common to all. 

Since the 1990s, Imi Knoebel has increasingly  used aluminum as a painting surface, but Först Aid III, II, I characterize  a singularity in the artist's oeuvre: the individual aluminum plates were welded together. The long weld seams, which are rough and strikingly visible,  place the material under tension. Instead of flat picture surfaces, resistant  pictorial grounds have been created which, in combination with the intense  colors, radiate a strong materiality and immediate presence. 

The fact that the artist's works skillfully move between painting and  sculpture is also and particularly impressive when looking at the work Standing  Painting E, 2020, which stands on the floor and is over 3 meters high. The  title and the large-format dimensions of the Standing Painting series  refer to the artist's experiences when looking at standing stones,  free-standing, towering blocks of stone in the vast expanses of Scotland.  Accordingly, the free form of the work is made from a single aluminum plate,  which Imi Knoebel has painted in a diverse manner and then repeatedly glazed  over. 

The Love Child works feature  free, irregular, even absurd shapes. Thin, cut metal panels, painted unprimed  with acrylic paint and broad brushstrokes. Mounted on a large nail that  protrudes from the works through a hole and on which they balance to find  their final alignment. »Love Child Dorian« and Love Child Phoenix, which can  be seen in the exhibition, were made from copper plates, and painted with  dynamic brushstrokes. Material and the way they are hung give the works a  lightness and refreshing spontaneity. 

The presentation also includes a group of etc. works, painterly  explorations of color and graphic structures with acrylic paint on plastic  foil, framed in aluminum frames.  The diversity of the exhibited works  testifies the artist Imi Knoebel's ongoing and consistent exploration of what  painting is and what painting can be.