Last weekend I happened upon a new museum show at the CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen, a suburb just to the south of Amsterdam. It’s a group show entitled “Neue Leipziger Schule” featuring the new generation of painters from Leipzig in the former east German, the most famous name at the moment being Neo Rauch. I wrote earlier about Matthias Weischer, another painter represented in the show.
When I was in Leipzig this summer I went out to visit the art center that’s been created at the former textile factory complex, and found the gallery that represents Rauch and Weischer, discovering another painter that I quite liked, David Schnell. This show at the CoBrA features a couple more painters who have stylistic similarities to Schnell, and I’d like to see more of their work. The first is Martin Kobe – the images above are examples of his work – and the second is Ulf Puder, example below.
These 3D worlds of partial architectures seem influenced by scenes created in computer games, and I find them to be very interesting to ponder. No, I don’t make any claim to understand them… assuming there’s something to understand above and beyond the visual interest inherent in these paintings.
