For Luxembourg Art Week we are proud to present a duo exhibition by two of our represented artists: Paul Beumer and David Roth.
Both Paul Beumer and David Roth share a strong interest in the possibilities and the limits of painting. Trained as oil painters their artistic practices have by now taken on a highly conceptual and research-based approach, which leads to a variety of visual outcomes. Their joint presentation aims to engage the viewer to question the status of the stretched canvas and to consider an expanded form of painting, which in these two artists’ case is poetic, inquisitive and intercultural.
Dutch artist Paul Beumer’s painterly practice oscillates freely between figuration and abstraction. Steering away from the conventions of the brush, oil paint and canvas his works are made on a variation of loose cloths. He engaged manual resist-dyeing techniques to produce abstract patterns that feel like faint memories of Western High Modernism. For the past few years he has focused on the relationship between Western and Asian approaches to landscape painting and nature and the use of natural dyes. This recently expanded to an interest in the weaving traditions on Sri Lanka, where he started to collaborate with local weavers.
Austrian artist David Roth’s practice forms a long-term research into the origins, processes and manifestations of painting. For Roth the process of making and the element of chance involved are as important to notice as the final visual outcome. Therefore a so called end product as for example a painted canvas and side products as for example a palette or a piece of cloth for cleaning brushes, have the same value for him. Every surface with marks and history of the process may turn up in his works. Next to this he also produces intriguing and humorous videos that document the unusual making process of various of his ‘paintings’.
