Sven Drühl

The artistic work of Sven Drühl should be understood as conceptual painting, in the sense of a remix or a transformation that reinterprets – or rather, investigates artistically – historical and contemporary paintings (from Caspar David Friedrich though Ferdinand Hodler to Eberhard Havekost). His work belongs to the tradition of Serial Art and Appropriation Art and focuses on the experimental rearrangement of paintings. A further progression of the concept is the large-format diptychs, triptychs and works on paper as well as neon-light art. The diptychs and triptychs, in particular, represent a continuation of the remix theme; they are created from separate painting fragments, and are quotations “once removed” – copies of copies – and at the same time, are also novel landscape collages. This monograph covers his work from 2001 to 2005.