Thomas Näther & Christoph Roßner | inclined plane

Galerie Hinten is showing works by two Leipzig artists in its exhibition in July. The two painters share an interest in images that are characterised by a quality of indeterminacy and unreliability. Thomas Näther experiments with motifs, situations and moods in his sketches. He transforms these starting points into a painting that takes place under conceptual guidelines. These include his fixed colour palette, the emphasis on the painting material and the inclusion of disruptive elements. He arranges his pictures in such a way that they show their components and the construction of the pictures is visible. Christoph Roßner works on paper, cardboard and canvas. Within his painting, he is interested in representational arrangements of invented and invented things and their refraction into the ambiguous. He understands the process of painting not as the simple realisation of ideas, but as the discovery of the idea itself. In doing so, he flirts with the absurd and grotesque without losing sight of his claim to a coherent painterly formulation.