Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents a personal show of David Ostrowski (Cologne, 1981), one of the most interesting artists from the last generation of abstract painters, who are emerging on the international art scene.
\nAfter studying at the Kunstakademie in D\u00fcsseldorf under Albert Oehlen, one of the most influential and controversial contemporary painters, Ostrowski grabbed international attention and, in the past two years, his works have been exhibited in Berlin, Paris, Z\u00fcrich, New York, and Los Angeles.
\nDavid Ostrowski has chosen painting both as a medium, and as the object of his research. His practice is based on a constant trial-and-error process, where chance and unexpected events are included in the work with the aim of attaining an unexpected beauty, a sort of visual poetry.
\nA sprayed line here, and an element of paper mache there, simply surfaced over a thick white applique. This less-is-more aesthetic is derived from\u00a0Ostrowski\u2019s\u00a0deliberate attempts to distance himself from the prevalent melds of technical skills that exist in painting today. His work marks a simultaneous abandonment from, and reconfiguration of, traditional historical tropes. His most recent body of work, the\u00a0F\u00a0series, investigates the conception of the error in painting where the artist attempts to use his right hand as he would his left to purposefully create process-based abstract canvases.
\nSome critics have considered\u00a0Ostrowski\u2019s\u00a0practice as being akin to literary free association. Others, such as Jonathan Griffin, have drawn comparisons between the artist\u2019s use of black smoky spray paint lines to car exhaust fumes. Ultimately, the physical attributes of Ostrowski\u2019s work extrinsically negate referential treatment. They are created in fluid succession mainly in the artist\u2019s former car park studio in Cologne. The artist describes his working method as follows \u201cI build and destroy the picture by adding and discarding canvas, colours, found fragments and dust without regard to any strategy or chronology. I strive to reduce my own decision-making power to the physicality of my actions\u201d.\u00a0His sparse canvases are exploratory: they seek to discover the limits of painting and the depths of nothingness.
\nOstrowski\u00a0is now mentioned in the same breath as definitive abstract artists of the millennial generation. Decidedly brief in interviews and unflinching in his dedicated obsession with celebrity culture, the artist\u2019s devoted and mysterious persona is interlinked with his practice. Much of his time in the studio is spent in an absorptive state, taking in music and novels prior to painting in spurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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