Wolfgang Blanke & Patricia Broothaers

15h – 18h
Opening 25.02.2023

Wolfgang BLANKE is well known for his paintings, for which he uses raw materials only, pigments, and various binders. He uses natural resins, oils, waxes, and no industrially produced colors. In this way, the artist continually finds new ways and means of expressing himself, both his personality and his current mood. The difficult moment of the so-called “pure painting” is a clash of recognition. You feel this fascinating material while you are in a dialog of such painting progress, you listen to it and it guides you. With transparent layers, he can show both the progress of the painting and the thrilling edge between form and background. Your perception will find your own specific way of identification.
Besides art, Wolfgang Blanke is a dedicated sailor and seaman. Both of these two passions, art, and sailing, have shaped his life up to now.

The sculptures of Patricia BROOTHAERS immerse us in a universe of childhood and fantasy. While recreating expressions of everyday life, the artist embodies with authenticity fragments of moods and wonders into the material. Her sculptures portray themselves as individuals who dare to let themselves be observed under their sometimes naïve, sometimes assertive airs. The ensemble, directly inspired by the fascinating world of the circus, stages itself before the audience with all its uniqueness and individuality. These costumes, or indeed acts, give us a glimpse of a true intimacy that might otherwise have remained hidden from us. The sensitivity of Patricia Broothaers’ work lies in this permanent struggle of self-assertion, between a desire for open-mindedness and introvertedness.