Maximilian Rödel – Celestial Artefacts (Hardback)

Inky black, apricot, magenta, and a pastel purple: apparent monochromes, the paintings of Maximilian Rödel (b. Braunschweig, 1984; lives and works in Berlin) actually do not just traverse colour spectrums; in a sense, they chart horizons of experience. Foreground and background are one, depth and surface at once; an undertow makes itself felt in which the nuances of colour inter-weave, blur into one another, shimmer, flare up.

The artist describes his pictures as an unfocused energy that already exists; he merely uncovers it. The first publication on Rödel's work presents the exhibition Celestial Artefacts at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, with an emphasis on the Prehistoric Sunsets series (2018–2021).