ANDREAS ZAGLER

In his exhibition *vis-à-vis*, Andreas Zagler presents a visual interplay between two groups of works. The colour objects on display raise questions about reality in the image and its representability. The physical layering and treatment of the impasto-like colour objects create a kind of portrait that confronts the viewer like a living being. This object-like quality meets colour surfaces whose treatment extends across the entire picture plane. These inscriptions in the still-wet paint transform the picture surface into an archive of lived time and past actions. The recurring actions and the passage of time become the central pictorial motif – the subjective is transformed by the artistic act into an objective, visually tangible form. Zagler reveals that existence is inextricably linked to the working of matter. With vis-à-vis, the exhibition becomes a physical encounter within the space, in which the object-like layering and the two-dimensional traces form a counterpart that prompts viewers to ask what is actually to be seen there and how these inscriptions of reality and lived time affect their own being.

Andreas Zagler, FO70 (Eine Regenwolke), 2025 Technik:ÖL auf Leinwand, :42×34 cm, Bildrechte:Johannes Rodach