Reflexion

A school of picturesque seeing - the artist Jochen Hein offers nothing less. From a distance, his paintings seem to show sea surfaces, green meadows or high skies. But on closer inspection, the reality of the images and our perception break apart. Nothing is as it seems. Instead of being realistic landscape painting, the paintings atomize in pure color with every step that is further approached. And not only that: what the eye had previously recognized as truth turns out to be a laboratory of processes in which the paint runs into one another wet-on-wet and is dripped, sprayed, smeared with a mallet, removed, dabbed on. As with a visit to the studio, the viewer is granted a view of his complex painting technique. What distinguishes Jochen Hein's works is that they never show nature painted on their own, but always show the nature of painting. And one must be fascinated to see: objectivity and abstraction are one here - even the illusion is illusion here.

JOCHEN HEIN (* 1960, Husum) lives and works in Hamburg. Hein attended the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In 2013 he published his first monograph The Nature of Man.

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