With \u201cTour imaginaire\u201d, Galerie Poll is presenting works by Andreas Silbermann in a solo exhibition for the first time. Created between 2020 and 2022, the oil paintings and pencil drawings depict motifs from a journey taken from northern Germany to southern Italy. What is unusual here is that the artist had no need to travel. Silbermann was borne solely by his power of imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silbermann\u2019s \u201cTour imaginaire\u201d began with a desire for a change of scene during the lockdown \u2013 the reason why the 58 small-format drawings in the exhibition were not made in the studio, but on Silbermann\u2019s sailing boat anchored off Wilhelmshaven, as the artist was gently rocked by the waves. Later in the studio, some of these drawings \u2013 only 14.8 x 21 cm in size \u2013 served as studies for oil paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stations of the fictional journey that Andreas Silbermann has painted are unspectacular; they are \u201cworth seeing\u201d only because of the way he presents them. The motifs are mostly based on the artist\u2019s own photos, supplemented by images researched on the internet: \u201cKiosk in Bremerhaven\u201d, \u201cRailway Bridge\u201d, \u201cSmall Caravan\u201d,<\/em> or \u201cSmall House with a Cat Flap\u201d.The petrol stations (\u201cSmall White Petrol Station\u201d), warehouses (\u201cHall 4\u201d), sheds (\u201cRed Shed\u201d), or containers (\u201cEVERGREEN\u201d) he has drawn or painted are glimpses of sites along the route, lacking any precise location. The artist does not divulge the details of his itinerary. Still, it becomes clear that he has followed the temptations of detours in determining the precise \u201cvirtual\u201d route he would take. The trip from Wilhelmshaven to Sicily hardly leads past \u201cFood\u2019n Stop\u201d and \u201c24 Hr Service\u201d, since these places are quite obviously in America. Silbermann loves the furtive changes of perspective that his art of detours makes possible: unlike the Val di Chiana or Apulia, \u201cHelgoland\u201d and \u201cWangerooge\u201d are further stations that do not lie directly on his path. The same is true of the coal mining areas in Lusatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silbermann invents unique moods both in his drawings, characterised by strong contrasts of light and dark, and in the oil paintings he composes out of a charming play of colours. His \u201cChange of Location\u201d transforms motifs, however banal, into scenes of imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andreas Silbermann,<\/strong> born 1964 in Wilhelmshaven, studied painting at the Braunschweig University of Art (Hochschule f\u00fcr Bildende K\u00fcnste Braunschweig) with Prof. Hermann Albert. He lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With \u201cTour imaginaire\u201d, Galerie Poll is presenting works by Andreas Silbermann in a solo exhibition for the first time. Created between 2020 and 2022, the oil paintings and pencil drawings depict motifs from a journey taken from northern Germany to southern Italy. What is unusual here is that the artist had no need to travel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":28691,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"ausstellen-text.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40903","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40919,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40903\/revisions\/40919"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}