Tobias Pils counts among the most exciting painters working today. With great consistency and sensitivity, he has developed a signature visual language that eludes quick readability, counting instead on the power of ambivalence. His oeuvre is characterized by an in-depth investigation of the history of painting that still actively seeks dialogue with the present. In a reduced, often almost austere world of colors, visual realms unfold in which the personal becomes the general and the intimate achieves monumentality.

In a guided tour of the exhibition, art historian, curator, and author Bice Curiger, artist Tobias Pils, and exhibition curator Manuela Ammer explore the elemental “pace” of the images in this exhibition.

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Tobias Pils
night on earth, 2018 
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand 
283 x 200 cm
Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln
Foto: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils