Jens Wohlrab

Jens Wohlrab is one of the young artists of "New German Art" who are conquering the international art market with their works.

His works have no lines. Colours characterise the dramaturgy of his pictures. His motifs are taken from sketches and photographs, which he alienates with abstract moments and colourful sources of interference. The interplay of formal and colourful components creates intriguing urban scenarios –between illusion and reality.

"Looking at a painting for a long time is like listening to music on another level: the sounds of the colours, the rhythms of the forms similarly move the soul, like a musical composition. And vice versa, a musician artfully created images while playing sounds on the instrument." This parable runs through the entire oeuvre of the artist. He was born in 1965 in Bayreuth, Germany, and grew up in Nuremberg. He studied painting under Professor Marwan at the Berlin University of the Arts between 1990 and 1996.

In addition to his great passion for painting, Wohlrab has played the piano since he was a child. The wonderful direct path into the soul via the ear and the emotion-triggering artistic interlacing of sounds has always accompanied him in equal measure alongside his occupation with paint on canvas. Wohlrab always finds mutual references to painting and music in nature, which he then captures on canvas. The transformation of seen nature into a digital colour impulse, and the transformation of the reality we know into an alien world, makes it possible to create images that visually transport this feeling that follows him when he hears certain sounds. The cityscape is a welcome subject to follow a longing that corresponds to this seductive sound world. With blurring and shifting colour sounds, the abstract quality comes more to the fore: visual scores emerge to create symphonies for the eye. Form becomes rhythm, and the colour becomes sound.