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HANSJOERG DOBLIAR
VULGAR SEXINESS MYSTERY
Through
January 2011
Hansjoerg
Dobliar
Erinnerung ans Muminland,
2010
Acrylic, oil, varnish on nettle
300 x 280
cm
We
are delighted to present Hansjoerg Dobliar’s
solo show VULGAR SEXINESS MYSTERY at Tanja
Pol Galerie. This exhibition is dominated by three large format
works, contrasted with smaller works in mixed media on
Alu-Dibond, cardboard, and canvas, as well as one
sculpture.
Hansjoerg Dobliar
Installation
view
Tanja Pol Galerie, 2010
Titles such as "Clown I & II" and "Tête I & II"
create links between the individual works, and, as in the case
of "Erinnerung ans Muminland" (Memory of Muminland), they also
contain allusions to figurative motifs. It is up to the viewer
to decide whether the titles are read as a trick resp.
delusion or a straight description. There is, of course, no
clown in the exhibition, no heads, and no Muminland (the
Mumins are characters created by the Finnish childrens‘ book
author Tove Jansson, invented in 1945, and known in Germany
especially from a TV cartoon series of the 1970s). And yet
there is a red spot that might be the nose of a clown, and
there are circular and linear shapes that might indicate
faces.
"Hansjoerg Dobliar's paintings endeavour to find
answers to essential questions concerning the common
contiguity of reality and art. Where exactly does a
naturalistic representation turn into one that has disengaged
from its subject? How much manoeuvring room is there for an
abstraction intent on autonomy, but reluctant to disown its
origin? Dobliar's oeuvre turns out to be a precise balancing
act that no longer differentiates between reality and fiction,
the recognizable and the unrecognizable, putting both realms
on an equal footing instead."
(Bernhart Schwenk: Natural, insane, abstract, in:
Hansjoerg Dobliar, The delicate Deformation, Cologne
2009.)
Hansjoerg Dobliar
Installation
view
Tanja Pol Galerie, 2010
On
the painterly level, too, the trick (in the sense of a general
impression, less as a deliberate form of deception) and the
exploration of possibilities are important themes. The two
large paintings in the main room seem at first sight to be
painted onto the raw canvas, but this is an effect of the
predominant beige colour that forms the background for large
circular forms (which look a bit like noses and/or eyes in
Clown II), and for colourful “areas” that look as if they came
about through the expressive application of the brush just
before it was cleaned. They really were painted like this, but
they have a double existence, as they are also of course very
deliberately placed elements of the painting. Calculated
coincidence, manifested in painterly gestures, paint dripping
down the canvas, and unusual layers of paint, indicates the
dual meaning of materials and means. This can also be seen in
the smaller works on cardboard and collages on aluminium; one
card was first used in the studio as a screen when spraying
paint onto another picture, and then itself became a medium
that was painted and supplemented with other materials such as
magazine cuttings here placed in a new context. What we see is
also always the other.
Hansjoerg Dobliar
Clown
II, 2010
Acrylic, oil, varnish on
canvas
285 x 280
cm
Hansjoerg Dobliar, born 1970 in Ulm,
lives and works in Munich and Berlin.
Important institutional solo shows include Villa Merkel
(with Astrid Nippoldt, 2010), Kunstverein Ulm and Oldenburger
Kunstverein. He has participated in numerous group shows such
as 2010 at the New Galerie, Paris, in Germany at the
Kunstforum Regensburg (Kopp Collection) and 2009 at Pinakothek
der Moderne Munich, at Kai 10 in Duesseldorf; and at the
Beijing Biennial. An important upcoming group show is Captain
Pamphile at Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany in
February, 2011.
Hansjoerg
Dobliar
Blue moon of Kentucky,
2010
Acrylic, oil, varnish on canvas
70 x 60
cm
TANJA POL
GALERIE
LUDWIGSTRASSE
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80539
MÜNCHEN
GERMANY
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+49.89.18946486
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+49.89.18946487
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