ARTIST TALK: 28.05.2016, 12 a.m. (Winfried Muthesius und Christoph Tannert).

The Galerie Springer Berlin is delighted to present new photographic works from the artist Winfried Muthesius. Muthesius takes a extremely fascinating angle at the border of painting and photography that fits perfectly into the programme at the gallery and thus enriches it. On its journey to becoming a fully-fledged work, each single piece of art is subject to several individual tasks. The works displayed in the exhibition were originally large-scale paintings by the artist from the series "Schädelbilder" ("Images of skulls"). These pictures are brought to various, usually public places and photographed there by Muthesius. The resulting photographs are then enlarged to dimensions of approximately 30 x 40 cm. The next steps are as follows: the images are first of all painted over, then scanned and lastly reproduced and worked on in their final format.

„Winfried Muthesius organises the aesthetic blending of opposites, in the best sense of the word: surface movements in the painterly flow and the depth of the image created by the photographic image. This triggers a sprawl of overlappings that no brain could possibly plan or imagine. Tiny particles collide in the pictorial spaces. The result is breathtaking and it reveals the most important identity of the artist – that with his work. Various pictorial elements on several layers are interwined. Chance spaces overlap. Muthesius combines image-surfaces and image-segments and applies tension to them until they generate images and eventually become world. Not a beautiful, but an unpredictable world in which, in a matter of seconds, a vineyard can turn into a desert, a sacred space into a dizzying abyss. These pictorial worlds encompass out time.”

This brief and concise description by Christoph Tannert, Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, incorporates the work of Winfried Muthesius particularly well. Christoph Tannert, who has known and supported the artist for many years, will be leading the artist's talk with Winfried Muthesius at the Galerie Springer Berlin on 28.05.2015 at 12 pm



About Winfried Muthesius

Born in Berlin in 1957, he lives and works in both Berlin and Drewen / Brandenburg. Winfried Muthesius studied painting from 1979–1984 at the HDK Berlin (today the UDK Berlin – Berlin University of the Arts). Numerous exhibitions followed, both in Germany and abroad. The works of Winfried Muthesius are on display in a number of private and public collections, including the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin