Christof mascher biography of michaels
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Josh Lilley is delighted to announce the opening of Urban Ornamental, the second exhibition at the gallery by German artist Christof Mascher.
This new body of work sees Mascher supplement his fantastical landscape paintings on panel and wood with a variety of other practices; paper porcelain reliefs, ceramic sculptures, and his Mind Storage Rack cabinets, all articulating a development within his pictorial language and storytelling.
Mascher's works can be seen to continue a dialogue with northern European painting through his own individual mythology, set out across his various landscapes and scenarios. Depictions of allegory, the surreal, hybrid creations and characters and the anthropomorphic awakening of the natural world can all be traced to a legacy of artists that began with Bruegel and Bosch. Yet his images reveal a thoroughly unique way of samling and disseminating visual information, providing an insight into how he controls and compartmentalises ideas, signifiers a
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Christof Mascher - The Ghost Yard
Christof Mascher - The Ghost Yard
27 October—8 December 2007
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
The Michael Janssen Gallery in Cologne is looking forward to hosting the first solo show featuring works by Christof Mascher. The exhibition will include small-scale works on paper and paintings in oil and Indian ink on wood.
In Mascher’s paintings, ethnic elements are fused with a utopian notion of architecture in the tradition of the Gläserne Kette (The Glass Chain), a chain letter created by an Expressionist group of architects which was initiated by Bruno Taut and Wenzel Hablik at the beginning of the 20th century. Dark, fantastical mountain landscapes are populated by crystalline arches, witches‘ cottages and grotesque figures, yet nevertheless appear profoundly inanimate.
The emphatic simplicity of both painting techniques and image conceptions invites comparisons with Neil Jenney‘s bad painting and an intuitive artistic ow as in Per Kirkeby‘s wor
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BERLIN.-Galerie Michael Janssen presents new works by Christof Mascher. Alley Cat is the second solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery. Born in Hanover in 1979, he studied at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with Walter Dahn until 2009. On display are new works on wood, drawings on paper and a shadow play installation.
His paintings and drawings are characterized by contradictions and ruptures. Fully painted elements stand next to unfinished ones, the gestural next to the ornamental and the abstract next to the representational. Ethereal remains of landscapes are either still under construction or already threatened by destruction. Mascher works on visual worlds in which nothing seems to make sense and therefore are open to all possibilities. Mascher processes influences from different sources; he is influenced by popular culture, such as scenarios from adventure games from the late 1980s, as well as by painters like Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Breughel, Edvard Munch