Maximilian Rödel x Riedel Immobilien München

We are delighted to show Maximilian Rödel's characteristic colour-abstracted oil paintings in a collaboration between Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Martina Tauber Fine Art | Advisory, ARC COLLECT and RIEDEL Immobilien. The works are on display at the RIEDEL Showroom on Wittelsbacherplatz, Munich, until the beginning of January.

In their potentised atmospheric expression, the paintings unfold a timeless and spatial validity. In Rödel's works, colour itself is elevated to the central pictorial object and thus transcends its original function as a representational carrier medium. Dissolving boundaries, opening up space and immersive, allowing associations and yet intangible and hidden, the compositions are characterised by a seemingly effortless complexity and multi-layeredness that triggers fundamental reflections on the Anthropocene.

Standing classically in the tradition of American Abstract Expressionism, as it sprouted particularly in New York in the 1940s and 50s with its numerous sub-currents, the artist's canvas surfaces are treated as a field of vision without a central focal point. Clear parallels to Colour Field Painting are discernible in the sense of a large-scale and generous application of paint as well as a careful compositional construction that nevertheless follows an intuitive process of creation.

The heightened formal reduction in turn shares essential pictorial design strategies of the Minimal Art of the early 1960s. These characteristics from the history of abstraction are translated into contemporary and timeless paintings of glistening beauty and raw imagery.

Maximilian Rödel initially studied at the HbK Braunschweig with Walter Dahn and Hartmut Neumann. This was followed by studies at the UdK Berlin with Thomas Zipp and Robert Lucander, which he completed in 2011 as a master student of the latter. Recent significant solo exhibitions include Carvalho Park, New York (solo, September 2024), Carvalho Park, New York (duo, spring 2024), Galerie du Monde curated by Philipp Bollmann, Hong Kong (2023), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2023), Carvalho Park, New York (2022); Kunstverein Arnsberg (2022); Martina Tauber Fine Art, Munich (2022); Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2021). Significant group exhibitions include Kunstverein Hannover (2013); Freies Museum, Berlin (2011); Kunstverein Weiden (2010) and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (2010). Works by the artist were presented at this year's Art Basel in Basel and Art Cologne and can be found in renowned international private collections.

Photo credit: Michael Daiminger