Florin Kompatscher: TINT

Florin Kompatscher and the post non-representational analysis

The seemingly random and spontaneous lines and shapes in Florin Kompatscher's paintings are sometimes reminiscent of airy constellations of corresponding comic fields. Recently, he has taken this process to the extreme and expanded the relationship between his works into a spatially tangible, walk-in construct in the world of signs - from panel paintings and murals to sculpturally moulded lines. Albert Oehlen is also regarded as an explorer of the phenomena of visual subjectivity, who also juxtaposes the always predominant abstraction of his painting with isolated figurative elements. Both painters - Kompatscher and Oehlen know and appreciate each other - revoke an art-historical theory and practice in which abstraction functioned as a strict opposition to illusionistic representationalism in painting. Oehlen came up with the marvellous concept of "post non-representationalism", which, with Kompatscher, can be transformed into the concept of "post-pre-representationalism", which further intensifies the paradox. For as Merleau-Ponty decreed: "Nothing is more difficult to know than what we actually see."

Exhibitions:
Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman Gallery, Vienna, 3/9 - 23/12/2021
Haverkampf & Leistenschneider Gallery, 7/1 - 12/2/2022