This group exhibition gathers three artists who examine the notion of technique in contemporary art practices. Martin Heine employs what he calls the “reverse iconography.” Literally working from the back of the canvas, his painting process is described as a performative act that denies the artist’s ego where each brush mark disappears into the void and goes to the core of art. Trek Valdizno achieves a similar obsessive aesthetic to his paintings but he goes through an equally tedious method in rolling oil paint into beads to make up his images. Thilo Westermann uses the old technique of reverse glass painting – a method, which, as opposed to regular oil painting, acts from front to back – to create a realistic depiction of objects that is usually only achieved in the medium of photography.

-The Drawing Room

Image: © Martin Heine 
Courtesy of the artist and The Drawing Room