Untitled

Matthias Groebel

Untitled, 1995175 x 200cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
acrylic on canvasDrei
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork consists of four square images depicting various parts of the human body, including a close-up of a face with droplets of water, a figure reclining, and hands. The overall composition is fragmented, with a distinct focus on the physicality and intimacy of the subjects. The muted color palette and blurred, distorted quality suggest an introspective, psychological tone. The text references suggest a narrative or thematic exploration of "terror" and "the towers", evoking a sense of unease and potential social commentary. The artwork appears to employ a contemporary photographic style that challenges conventional representation, inviting the viewer to ponder the deeper meanings and contexts behind the depicted scenes. ...

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Matthias Groebel
Artist
Matthias Groebel
B.1958, German

In the late 1980s, Groebel developed a machine that allowed him to transfer images from the television onto canvas, a complex process involving multiple stages and applications of paint with an airbrush pistol. Groebel’s production process played on a reciprocal and closely intertwined relationship between artist/painter, technology, and generative form-finding in an era of profound technological change and the digital turn. The paintings are based on what were ubiquitous images in the media of the time – simultaneously generic and highly suggestive – and have, as the artist himself says, “an effect, even when you don’t want them to.” Groebel’s paintings offer a precise portrait of the televisual landscape of the 1990s and its specific mixture of voyeurism, reality TV, permanent self-staging, and surveillance. They convey a feeling for analog television’s hypnotic spaces of experience – its flickering, backlit, and low-resolution images, its abundance of talking heads and close-ups of bodies and body parts, and its transgressive intimacy. Where the Hollywood star on celluloid seemed unreachable, television projected a sense of familiarity and openness – a sort of seeing, speaking surface that looked out at us from within the device. His images have a mysterious physical presence and convey a powerful sense of psychological latency, bringing out the subtle tensions and power structures inherent within a gesture, a gaze, or the biting of nails, often contrary to the intrinsic and profit-driven agendas of the entertainment industry ...

Matthias Groebel: Artworks
L0597
Matthias GroebelL0597, 1997Price on Request
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Matthias GroebelHacked Channels #12, 2000Price on Request
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Matthias GroebelHacked channels #11, 2000Price on Request
Untitled
Matthias GroebelUntitled, 1990Price on Request
Untitled
Matthias GroebelUntitled, 1995Price on Request
Untitled
Matthias GroebelUntitled, 1995Price on Request
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Matthias GroebelUntitled, 2024Price on Request
Drei
Gallery
Drei
Köln

Emerging out of a former project space, Drei has been established as a commercial gallery in 2015 by Dennis Hochköppeler and Jakob Pürling in Cologne, Germany. The gallery features an international and trans-generational program with a focus on cross-disciplinary practices and pushes the cooperation with international galleries and institutions.