Jörg Ernert - Nachbilder

The Long Night of Museums: Friday, June 12th, 7pm -
12am.
In July our gallery is open by appointment only.

We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening of
Jörg Ernert’s “Nachbilder” exhibition. The opening will be
held on June the 6th at 9pm at our Erfurt Gallery. We
welcome special guest speaker Dr. Jan Nicolaisen from the
Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.

What happens when the painting culture of the Leipzig
School meets key works of art history? Jörg Ernert’s new
works show exactly this unification. Colours, shapes and
content relationships appear in a previously unseen light.

Jörg Ernert has taken many excursions to see the masters
of art history, eliciting him to create new versions of their
works in his own characteristic style. Ernert’s preferred
interest is the question of how far abstraction can go, where
the object has to stay visible, whilst exploring the ways in
which reduction enriches the image.

His “Nachbilder” exhibition, or “ After Images” in English,
investigates this subject effusively. His works analyse a
phenomenon that already Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian
have explored with fascination; how a work of art can be
most alive when the painting only delivers to the viewer the
visual framework of the object, arousing the visual senses
and memory to complete what is being seen - namely, not
only through visual memories, but also through awakening
the memories of smell, taste and feelings once felt.

Jörg Ernert was born in 1974. Since 2012 he has been the
Professor of Painting at the HGB Leipzig.