Jochen Klein

On Friday I joined my better half in Munich. He´s been working there and I took the chance to stroll around town, visit some museums and do a little shopping.

One of my trips lead me straight to the "Pinakothek der Moderne" where a Jochen Klein Exhibition takes place at the moment (until 08.06).



Jochen Klein Untitled, 1997, © Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln


"The best known pictures of the painter Jochen Klein (1967-1997), who died young, show idyllic landscapes: meadows of flowers, forest glades, trunks of birch trees, autumn leaves. It is only on closer inspection that the ambivalence of these scenarios became apparent. They impart a joy of life, but also an acute awareness of vulnerability and exposure to danger. Klein created the pictures in the mid-1990s in London. They characterise an artistic approach that is self-confidently committed to painting yet calls into question the authenticity frequently awarded it. Aesthetic experience of everyday life served Jochen Klein as sources of inspiration: photo-wallpaper, magazine advertisements, drugstore calendars, erotic films. He recognised in these motifs the vocabulary of a collective consciousness, which despite the tendency to clichés reveals intimate desires." (Press statement Pinakothek)


http://www.pinakothek.de/pinakothek-der-moderne/