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The works of Heyl and Kreuzer have little in common at first glance. Heyl uses cut transparent paper; no color, just shades of black, white, and gray, with wavy paper behind reflective glass. Kreuzer employs green and brown strokes, splashes, and fingerprints; canvases wrapped in soft, blurry, shimmering color mists. When the works are placed side by side, their similarities become apparent. The two artists share a similar approach to their work. Uncertain and unanchored, they engage with the tangible world, making objects conceivable and thinkable. For Heyl, these might be square, slender plates or panels or tiles. For Kreuzer, they could be roots, branches, caves, or clouds. The artists are never certain of the existence of their objects. In a way, they prevent them from fully materializing. Thomas Heyl's figures are cut out, excised: where they could be, there is only white paper. Roland Kreuzer's atmospheric landscapes are covered and concealed; they serve as an elusive backdrop. These are works meant for a moment. They deal with transience, with the instant, with the incidental. Gray shadows. White holes.

Thomas Heyl and Roland Kreuzer have known each other since their studies in the 1980s at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Over the thirty years of their artistic and personal friendship, they have realized numerous exhibitions and projects together. Thomas Heyl lives in Stockdorf near Munich, while Roland Kreuzer resides in Berlin. In September 2010, they will present a selection of about twenty new works at K-Salon.