ARNO BOJAK / GRÜßE AUS METAMORPHOSIKA / February 20th – March 28th, 2009

Exhibition views (please click on the image to enlarge):

(Photos: Uwe Walter)

Landscape without Antonius

Metamorphosika is a scenic island. Discovered by Darwin and named after Ovid, it hosts a tropical idyll of an uncanny diversity of species and varieties. Nowhere else can such unusual constellations, connations, and mixtures be found. Such vegetation and perverted animal kingdoms can develop only as a result of the island's totally isolated geographical position.

The painter made it his task (like his predecessor, Gauguin) to capture this unique tropical island on canvas. Bojak pays particular attention to the animals, which appear repeatedly in dance-like states of extension and elongation. Still, it is left to the viewer to decide whether the movements in these studies belong to the graceful motions of ballroom dancing or are violent struggles for survival.

To create his wall-filling formats, Bojak works with different techniques: paint in both watercolor and gouache styles, drawings against intricate paintwork, bright colors alongside pastels. The sensitivity of the creatures and their world nearly carries over to the viewer physically. Everything seems to be moving, dazzling the eye with flickering attacks of color and expressive compositional techniques.

Out of the painter's Neukölln studio emerge landscapes situated between reproduction and archetype as never seen before.

Greetings from Metamorphosika!

In addition to new work in acrylic paint, the 15 works resulting from the short film series "Welcome to the Paint", a collaboration of the documentarians "Böller & Brot" with Bojak, will be shown.

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Opening documented by the Berlin Artcontacter:
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