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Exotic locales, places of longing, or dream landscapes

With ‚And Left A Prey To Hazard Wild‘, Setareh Gallery presents Pierre Knop’s (*1982) first solo show in Germany. The viewers are confronted with motifs such as weightlifters wearing posing thongs, a duel under palm trees, or burning stakes. Traditional genres like the still life, landscape painting, or historical scenarios are used playfully as a framework to create new narratives. The painter intuitively spins components of multifarious images from his memory to create bizarre scenarios.
These scenarios frequently play out in exotic locales, places of longing, or dream landscapes. Palm trees, forests, and sunsets frame remote huts or the scene of a police checkpoint. The freestyle painting, strange color effects, and the use of various materials like oil paints, oil pastels, or colored pencils result in a visual immediacy. Often unshaped, plump or distorted figures complement the apparent simplicity of a visual world that always has an ironic subtext. Standard power structures are questioned by turning the inner logic of familiar motifs upside down. For example, the microcosm of a harem, in contrast to conventional ways of thinking, is used to show a group of men as lust objects for a female authority.
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