Wundertüte

29.August – 4.September, 12-6pm daily
Opening on Thursday 1st September 6-8pm.

For this exhibition, two established abstract artists have brought together a selection of their paintings to hARTslane.

Michael Kaul (born 1957, Braunschweig, Germany) and Nicky Hodge (born 1957, Birmingham, UK) became familiar with each other’s paintings through instagram and felt that their work showed many affinities. Both painters make mainly monochromatic paintings in which the raw canvas is often exposed, putting emphasis on the edges and margins. Painting wet on wet, there’s a reliance on chance and accident, allowing the process to dictate with washes, bleeds and runs creating ambiguous forms. Differences and distinctions exist in subtle ways but it is the element of surprise – the possibilities that emerge once all the work is brought together in the space – that is the focus of this show. Even where paintings appear quite different in terms of style and feel, there is a sense of dynamism in the interplay as well as a quieter intimacy that exists between them.