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Armin Boehm: New Harbours, 2019.
Oil and textile on wooden board, 100 x 110 cm & Psychologische Vision, 2019.
Oil and textile on wooden board.
The German artist Armin Boehm is occupied with how the figuration of people, their habits, movements, and psychology. His paintings are expressive and colorful and the figures in his works are both stylized and extremely personal. Boehm’s scenes can be everything from reliable to absurd and sometimes, he includes elements of supernatural creatures and symbols. Especially the symbolic plays a role because the works in a significant way erase the boundaries between what can be interpreted as a sign and an element of figuration. With Boehm, the two live side by side and influence each other in a painterly expression that also makes space for abstract surfaces where the brushstrokes are visible and for his special collage technique where he adds colored cutout textile directly onto the work. The textile adds a three-dimensional tactility and slips into the painted surfaces.
Armin Boehm (1972, DE) lives and works in Berlin. From 1995-1996 he studies at Staatliche Kunstakademie Münster,
DE and from 1995-2001 at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE under the professors Konrad Klapheck and Jörg Immendorf. In 2011, he had a residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, FR. Boehm has exhibited at galleries such
as Meyer Riegger, DE; Francesca Minini, IT; Anita Beckers Contemporary Art & Projects, DE: Galerie Peter Kilchmann, CH; Harris Liebermann Gallery, US. Boehm is represented by Hans Alf Gallery in Denmark, Galerie Peter Kilchmann AG in Switzerland, Meyer Riegger in Germany, Francesca Minini in Italy, and Susanna Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in the US.
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