Johannes Schramm

Still Water

26.09.15 – 28.02.16

CCA Andratx is pleased to present the new exhibition by Johannes Schramm (DE, 1965). Held in the CCA Kunsthalle, the exhibition titled Still Water unfolds the underlying dynamics hidden behind apparent water still-lifes. Still water has a starring role in Johannes Schramm’s body of work. By displaying a wide range of scenarios, both indoor and outdoor landscapes, water rendering allows him enter a variety of pictorial resources. Still Water presents Schramm’s latest paintings on canvas, structured in three thematic series: Pool Paintings, Buoy Paintings and Water Lilly Paintings.

The “Pool paintings” display the rigid architecture of bathing landscapes and their visual dissolution in the water. Looking into and through water dissolves all fixed forms and structures. Miraculous patterns –resulting from light reflections and wave movements– dance on the water’s surface removing the tile’s geometric structure, its hardness and regularity. The “Buoy Paintings” place us into open waters. Immovably fixed, the buoys show only a portion of their form, but become a whole in our minds by the act of mirroring them.

Finally, the “Water Lilly Paintings” take us into natural sceneries. Water lily leaves intersect the trees’ reflections on the water beside the shore. The sunset light vividly shows how the leaves grow over the water’s surface, unfolding and descending back into the still water.