MICHAEL VAN OFEN

"Painting after Modernism only found its raison d?e?tre by leaving the real world and concentrating on itself, creating a hermetic asylum where it could survive...The aesthetic space, rejected by modern tendencies, has been reclaimed by Michael van Ofen?s paintings...This is no nostalgic attempt to revive the dead. Van Ofen is not interested in the relics of painting, but is convinced of the necessity to revive the experience it builds, as the only way to rescue painting from those who proclaim its demise every now and then."
Doreet LeVitte Harten. Exhibition catalogue: Ex(o)DUS, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2001)

Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to announce the first UK solo show of work by German artist Michael van Ofen. For his London exhibition, van Ofen will show a series of new works on canvas.