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ARNO BOJAK / ICH GROSSE GRUPPE / November 23 – December 22, 2007

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After Bojak has composed paintings where rooms in their materiality have become subjects for motif-based collages and the painted material excesses (Master of Tape) of a few years ago -- are now the scenes of floating stages which are the venue for large figures groups, in which historical examples are indicated. Whereas Bojak says he finds his topics mostly at "simple occasions" and negates the "art historical search." Reality-TV-format in a stone age village and Ludwig II Wagnergrotto causes Bojaks disastrous painting "Grotte" and a discourse about the precursor of Egyptian myths give birth to "The Sewed". Bojak loves genre pictures with open questions, the ambivalence of painting and story is addressed as "imposition", as "between space".

In the images of Arno Bojak the apocalyptical hopes of today are already part of our new reality. "Dr. Frank'n'Stein" produces his homunculi in serial. The creatures are allowed to watch the completion of the others by their master; they seem to participate with cold lust - and they even can assist. The creator (he is unmistakably self-portrait-like), does not work in secret - he celebrates his art in a home depot store to the extended opening hours.

In Bojaks paintings we meet our contemporaries on a longing search for a new gestalt, a new identity. The characters act according to a secret plan involved with absurd activities - visible for the viewer - the mirrors reflect debris and quotations, art history and construction.

In recent times series of lovingly painted portrait-hybrids emerged. These characters in front of picturesque arrangements give contrast to the large battles of painting emerging simultaneously.

(Text by Frank Diersch)