Hubert Scheibl

Tammam Azzam, Elvira Bach, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Paris Giachoustidis, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lehmpfuhl, David Meskhi, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Martin Spengler, Jan Tichy, Ivana de Vivanco
Galerie Kornfeld is delighted to announce it's ten year anniversary exhibition, wich will feature the artists that have come along with us through the decade. The anniversary exhibition will reveal touching glimpses of the past and the future, sensitive and exciting exchanges between first artistic attempts and more mature works. The works on show hint at inner struggle and transformation, the eternal search for what is hidden behind the visible.

Within the works of both artists the viewer is entering into a representation of reality in which boundaries of time are blurred and the subjects of the works are roaming free within indefinable spaces. For both Scheibl and Meskhi, the subject matter is often frozen between action and reaction, ignorant for that moment of its movement through the passage of time, providing an evocative melding of past and present and a sense of the fragility of memory. Movement plays a central role as Meskhi's subjects are swimming in space and Scheibl's brushstrokes create deliberate gestural-abstractions of motion.

Hubert Scheibl is one of the most important contemporary Austrian painters. His oil paintings and drawings are always non-representational, renouncing subject matter in favour of emotions, the artist’s own, as well as those of his spectators.
His art is defined by dichotomies and antinomies. Certain works reveal an infinite variety of colour in the cracks in the uppermost, bright monochrome layer of paint. Others depend on the contrast within spaces of light, reminiscent of the Old Masters, countered by grand painterly gestures, executed in one controlled movement. Others in turn open new vistas on imaginary landscapes of colour and light, behind mist-like veils of colour. All of Hubert Scheibl’s paintings, however, seem suffused by an inner radiance.

Maliheh Afnan, Robert Fry, Hubertus Hamm, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Leonardo Silaghi, Jan Tichy, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
The exhibition “Paper Plains” will show a wide spectrum of techniques to working on paper, including etchings, prints, photographs, drawings and paintings. It brings together established artists with young emerging producers, tracing the significance of this simultaneously ancient and contemporary medium.
In a rapidly digitalising (art)world with the means to print perfect 3D sculptures, generate slick flawless imagery on photoshop and immaterial artworks making their way into galleries, it is curious to witness the return of paper as an important medium for artists.

At long last an exhibition of Austrian painter Hubert Scheibl is shown at Galerie Kornfeld in Berlin. For the occasion a selection of works encompassing oil paintings, works on paper and sculptural elements suggestive of the artist’s multifaceted practice is presented.
Hubert Scheibl (b. 1952 in Gmunden, Austria) uses coating knives, palet-knives and other tools to design his large scale abstract paintings. On a visual level, his works are characterized by the distinctive, touching chromatic universe, yet on an emotional grade, pathos is perceived through a complex dynamism of the spatial structure. The composition seems to be breached through by an intimate light that floods the plane alluding to a deeper space, sublime source of emo¬tional engagement for the viewer.