Abstract 2016-170 Painting

Ralf Martens-Andernach is a German abstract painter. He lives and works in Bonn, New York and Los Angeles. The large format abstract and multi-layered paintings want to stimulate the senses and thoughts of the viewer to intensify reality. Whether this is accomplished, depends on how intensive his intuition and perception of the environment can be transformed on to canvas. Below the white-monochrome or colored surfaces are multiple layers of paint yielding fig­u­ra­tion and ab­s­trac­tion, sig­ni­f­i­cance and ba­nal­i­ty. Fea­turing bright col­ors and de­tailed, mul­ti­lay­ered com­po­si­tions he uses a palette knife, a squeegee, and a knife to shape th­ese paint­ings built up in sev­er­al lay­ers of oil paint, of­ten made use of chance in the cre­a­tion of his work­s—re­sulting in de­tailed and ex­treme­ly com­plex com­po­si­tions. Ultimate goal is to discover and paraphrase the hidden and unknown below the surface.