Older people will remember the »Fast Forward« button on analogue tape recorders and cassette players. With its help, you couldn't get to the music you wanted to hear immediately (like today), but at least you could do so at an accelerated speed. In terms of art history, one can see an analogy to this in the rapid developments of the last three decades or in the ideas of artists. On the intellectual path from milestones of development such as the Renaissance or Romanticism to the present day, they sometimes take shortcuts that would never occur to a theorist. Such accelerations also provide H.G. Griese with repeated pictorial occasions and ideas, regardless of whether the motifs are realistic or strictly constructed.
H. G. Griese (*1964) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1995 and has worked as a freelance artist in Dresden ever since. His interest in painting moved from figurative depictions to constructive abstraction. We will be presenting a selection of his works from recent years.
