Florin KompatscherTINT

Florin Kompatscher and the analysis of post-non-objectivity: the lines and formations in Florin Kompatscher’s pictures, which seem to have arisen by chance and spontaneously, are at times reminiscent of airy constellations of mutually corresponding comic-strip panels. Recently he has taken this procedure to extremes and expanded the relationship between his works into a construct in the world of signs that can be experienced spatially, because it can be walked through – from panel painting and mural to sculpturally formed linear structures. Albert Oehlen likewise counts as an explorer of the phenomena of visual subjectivity; he too sets the abstraction that has always predominated in his painting against isolated figurative elements. Both painters – Kompatscher and Oehlen know and value one another – suspend an art-historical theory and practice in which abstraction functioned as the strict opposite of illusionistic objecthood in painting. Oehlen found the wonderful term “post-non-objectivity” for this, which in and with Kompatscher can be transformed into the still more paradoxical term “post-pre-objectivity.” For as Merleau-Ponty already decreed: “Nothing is more difficult to know than what we actually see.”

Exhibitions:
Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Vienna, 3/9 – 23/12/2021
Galerie Haverkampf & Leistenschneider, Berlin, 7/1 – 12/2/2022