Collection: Roemer + Roemer

The artist duo Römer + Römer create a shimmering, charged atmosphere with the depiction of this snapshot, so that the euphoria of the festival-goers can be felt. None of the people depicted in the picture make contact with the viewer, so that they can be observed and classified undisturbed in their naive actions. A deliberate voyeurism, through which the recipient is given the opportunity to mentally transport themselves to the scene of the event and become part of the celebrating crowd.

Always on the lookout for new motifs to capture with their cameras and then put on canvas, Nina and Torsten Römer travel the world, visit festivals and repeatedly capture temporary communities. They see their travels as a source of inspiration and social expeditions from which they draw the ideas for their visual worlds.

The motifs of the works by Römer + Römer are based on digital photographs, which they translate into painting and thus back into the analogue medium. The density of the small and fine colour dots, which immediately reminds us of 19th century impressionism and pointillism, oscillates here between the individual point or pixel becoming autonomous on the one hand and the interaction to form a recognizable motif on the other. The representation of light plays an important role here, as can be seen directly in the selection of works in this exhibition: dark backgrounds convey the mood of a nighttime shot, while the artificial light is represented via the direct colour contrast and allows the canvas works to literally glow from within.

Shimmering dots of color come together to form something recognizable, uniting in direct juxtaposition of pixel-like overlays of color. Stepping forward and back in front of the picture creates new moments of perception. Directly in front of the canvas we become aware of the materiality of the colors, while from a distance a large, shimmering overall picture emerges.