Jurgen Partenheimer - Inside The White Cube

Partenheimer’s abstract works are characterised by their variable, multidimensional language of forms, lightness of touch, striking use of colour and poetic approach. Partenheimer uses reduction, asymmetry and imperfection in his work to propose alternative modes of perception. These are partly the result of the artist’s engagement with and contribution to a broader theoretical discourse. In his paintings forms circulate around an undefined space − a 'nothingness' − and seem to have the potential to dissolve and reform at any moment. This open-ended quality is evident in all the works in this exhibition. As Rudi Fuchs has noted in his essay on the painting La Fortune (2012), which is titled after the painting La Fortune (1938) by Man Ray, this creative instability offers an altogether different path to abstraction, which is commonly so rooted in controlled composition.