Bernhard Buhmann Bernhard Buhmann

OPENING
Thursday, 22.01.2009, 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Franz Urban, STRABAG AG

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Barbara Baum, STRABAG Kunstforum

Bernhard Buhmann's new works are no longer about perfecting the realistic image conception, but about turning to painterly abstraction, playful composition, color effects and plasticity. His pictures offer a stage for posing figures, for bizarre props and irritating elements. The content of reality is reflected on it in ambiguous metaphors. Like in a circus tent, behind masks, draperies, sliding walls and curtains, new perspectives and horizons open up. In this surreal, abysmal world landscape between nostalgia and modernity, there is scope for balancing acts between meaning and senselessness. Barbara Baum, excerpt “Because they don't know what they are doing.”, 2008

>Bernhard Buhmann

Photos: STRABAG ART