Roberts Projects presents Lenz Geerk's 'Schwarzweiß,' featuring new black-and-white paintings and works on paper. This exhibition, marking Geerk's fifth solo show, delves into emotional landscapes of anxiety and disconnection, employing a figurative language reminiscent of early Modernism. His works often portray solitary figures or groups, reflecting a theme of isolation versus hope. The monochromatic palette represents societal polarization, contrasting the emotional inner turmoil of the figures with their calm, dreamlike settings, encouraging viewers to connect the art to their own experiences while maintaining a sense of universality.
The simplification of his palette into a range of monochromatic values is a way of expressing the increasing polarization of society and the absence of nuance, complexity and uncertainty.
Geerk's oeuvre is renowned for its use of a figurative language that hearkens back to early Modernism as a means for exploring the strangeness and alienation of contemporary life.
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