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Lot Essay
The work of German artist Thomas Scheibitz has been described as 'post-cubist' for, much like his illustrious predecessors, it hovers uneasily between abstraction and representation. The artist's pictorial breakdown features recognizable and usually quite mundane objects or landscapes-a flower, an apartment building, a stairwell.
Heavy coats of oil, streaky brushstrokes and colors permeating the canvas lend Scheibitz's works a strong sense of physicality. His expressionistic palette full of sky blues, vivid reds, and lemon yellows but also retro-chic olive greens, pale mauves and dull oranges heightens the extreme flatness of the canvas.
In Douglas, a vast canvas from 1999, Scheibitz has broken and fragmented an idyllic outdoor scene. In the kaleidoscopic distortion, a man, presumably named Douglas, lays under the sun on the porch of his suburban home. This uncanny and emotionally isolated representation of an everyday moment is not an actual representation, but rather a fantasy. Scheibitz's depiction more closely resembles a digital image from a video game than a photograph from real life. The artist offers the viewer a futuristic vision where nature and technology merge, where realism is replaced by the higher aesthetic of design.
Heavy coats of oil, streaky brushstrokes and colors permeating the canvas lend Scheibitz's works a strong sense of physicality. His expressionistic palette full of sky blues, vivid reds, and lemon yellows but also retro-chic olive greens, pale mauves and dull oranges heightens the extreme flatness of the canvas.
In Douglas, a vast canvas from 1999, Scheibitz has broken and fragmented an idyllic outdoor scene. In the kaleidoscopic distortion, a man, presumably named Douglas, lays under the sun on the porch of his suburban home. This uncanny and emotionally isolated representation of an everyday moment is not an actual representation, but rather a fantasy. Scheibitz's depiction more closely resembles a digital image from a video game than a photograph from real life. The artist offers the viewer a futuristic vision where nature and technology merge, where realism is replaced by the higher aesthetic of design.