60SIX presents the eleventh exhibition of Jürgen Trautwein’s paintings in a series called “Shy Tidings”.
The small object-like paintings on cardboard packing material feel like artifacts excavated from buried hidden places. They are modern painting “Trautwein style”…utilizing a substrate of detritus from twenty first century lifestyles, then transformed by the artist’s additive and subtractive process of layering paint in planned accidents. The result is a suite of paintings with luxurious texture, mystery, surface tension and contours we don’t expect to see.
In Trautwein’s words this work is part of an ongoing exploration of conceptual and post-minimalist painting, much rooted in the process of the now, guided only by the use of the materials and their momentary transformations. These are paintings of transience, impermanence and imperfection. In search for a title, “Shy Tidings” came in a dream.
By appointment at 60SIX, 12 Elgin Park, SF, CA 94103, 415-577-4396 through March 8, 2025
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