DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to present the painter Klaus Jörres’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Titled Kleine Bilder, it opens on January 21, 2022, and will be on view through March 5.

In the practice he has built over twenty years, Jörres creates large-format acrylic paintings based on renderings and drafts exported from secondhand Mac computers, manipulating the basic visual structure of modern design, the grid.

In Kleine Bilder, the artist no longer transfers his “digital drafts” to the canvas by hand, instead generating a series of small-format 30-by-40-cm C-prints directly on photographic paper, framed and face-mounted to frosted acrylic glass. The cybernetic color palette and structured compositions develop images oscillating between techie disruption and classic abstraction. The acrylic front’s subtle milky thickness, not unlike the surface of oil paintings, further abstracts the linear language of rotations, overlays, repetitions, and cutouts.

In light of the long-suppressed but currently rapid rise of digital art, there exists a need for digital works of art in physical form. In this context, Jörres conceives of his Small Pictures as a tangible format that nonetheless responds to the basic ideas behind NFTs, for example, and the demands of a new kind of art market characterized by increased participation and a growing group of collectors.

A catalog featuring artworks and installation views and including an essay on the new series will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

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