Press Release Text
by Kerry Edwards VEGAS GALLERY
London
CHRISTIAN MOELLER
"Judgement Day"
21 February 2008 - 16 March 2008
Private View: Thursday 21 February 18.00-21.00
open: wednesday - saturday 12.00 - 18.00
www.vegasgallery.co.uk
64-66 Redchurch Street london E2 7DP
PRESS RELEASE
Release Date: 12 November 2007
"My world is small but my universe is huge" (Christian Moeller)
Berlin based artist Christian Moeller trained at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe by Horst Antes and has exhibited extensively throughout Germany, and also in Lisbon, Prague and Los Angeles. Christian's paintings can be seen as visual manifestations of the deepest repressed emotions and darkest experiences which lie at the heart of the human psyche. Drawing inspiration from what he calls "the mental abyss of human existence", Christian strives to make the invisible visible.
Christian Moeller's huge canvases serve as a startling reminder of our own diminitive position in relation to the universe. Loneliness, destruction, pain and chaos confront us with uncompromising force. Titles such as "And Once Again a Day Closer to the Grave" and "New From the Land of Grudge and Why the Graves Are Always Filled With Optimists" are perhaps a nod to Samuel Beckett's extensential masterwork Waiting For Godot:
"Astride
the grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries."
However
unsettling, these large and malevolent canvases loom before us, attracting
us rather than repelling. They exert an exotic attraction, luring us deep
into the abyss. The act of looking has never been less passive. This work
demands our engagement: we must move around, stepping backward and forward
and left and right, as we navigate our way around the painting, but our
effort is certainly rewarded. We are able to discern a richness and depth
in the midst of the darkness.
Moeller says: "I allow a form more freedom if I do not evaluate it with
colours", and we see that the engulfing blackness is puncuated with tantalising
strokes of white and layer upon layer of grey tones: mysterious forms begin
to emerge before us. The frenzied brushstrokes represent an interior stream-of-consciousness
laid bare upon the canvas, which is transformed into a stage
upon which the subconcious plays. Gradually, the manic strokes converge before
our eyes to form a coherent and cathathic whole.
To
look is to embark with Christian Moeller upon a journey from which we emerge
slightly shaken,
but with a greater knowledge of ourselves and of the human condition.
Text by Kerry Edwards
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