Bøger af Sasa Bogojev

This museum book supports the exhibition Tilo Baumgärtel in the Drents Museum, Assen. Text in English and Dutch.

With J'M donc je suis, Düsseldorf-based painter Jochen Mühlenbrink (b. 1980) takes stock of the productive years2018 to 2023, during which he further developed and sublimated his theme, the ambiguity of the correspondencebetween visual perception and depictive reality. With the Window Paintings, for example, he takes up a very own andold motif of painting, the image detail as a view and window into the world: in Mühlenbrink's work, it is seemingly almostrendered impossible from the outset. Streaks of condensation form the foreground of a hyper-realistic everyday scenein a veiled background, visible only through tiny sections of "painted-out" fi ngerprints in the window. The process ofcognition triggered by this strategy of showing and concealing brings two factual realities before the viewer's eyes, thatof the picture and that in the picture, and puts them to a sophisticated test in this double respect: Je vois donc je suis?With a knowledgeable and exciting essay by the art historian Anna Heinze, further text contributions by SaSa Bogojev andSebastian Schmitt. High-quality design, brilliant printing and climate-neutral production.Jochen Mühlenbrink, *1980 in Freiburg (DE), lives and works in Düsseldorf (DE).

Julius Hofmann (b. Göttingen, 1983; lives and works near Göttingen) has mastered the traditional aspects of painting and commands a broad repertoire of creative techniques. This expertise enables him to call conventional painting in question by combining it with the aesthetic of 1990s computer graphics. The simple and often grotesque symbolism of the imperfect digital imagery contrasts with a perfectionistic figurative painting. This approach lends his pictures a disconcerting and unexpected quality.Western Philosophies is an episode in Hofmann's ongoing work confronting consumerist society with its dark secrets and its indifference. Meanwhile, his creative process is also an exploration of the artist's personal fears and frustrations. In depicting his figures, landscapes, and machines, he draws our attention to the painterly originality of structures and surfaces. The protagonists, to his mind, play a subordinate role, typically serving him as vehicles-he is more interested in the "how" than in the "what."