MICHAEL TOENGES
b. 1952, GermanyFor Michael Toenges (born 1952 Pfaffenhofen/Ilm, lives in Cologne) paint is an actual material with volume and density. His brush and spatula leave furrows, valleys, and ridges, and yet: despite the heaviness of the paint materials, the beholder gets a sense of a flying, floating dynamics. The massive brushstrokes reveal verve and energy, they strive towards the edge, they want to go beyond the painting, and the colours are light. Heavy does not have to be heavy.
Michael Toenges (born in 1952 in Pfaffenhofen/Ilm, Germany) lives and works in Cologne. His works have been exhibited in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Switzerland Among the One-Artist-Shows of the recent years are 2020 Galerie Albrecht Berlin, Kunstverein Krefeld, Galerie Mark Müller Zürich, 2019 Taguchi Fine Art Tokyo, 2017 Galerie Howard Yezerski Boston, «Work on Paper», Museum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, 2018 the Wiesbaden Museum has shown his paintings together with paintings by Jospeh Marioni, Peter Tollens und Ulrich Wellmann. His work belongs to public and private collections, among them the Museum Wiesbaden and the Kolumba Museum Cologne.
Courtesy Galerie Albrecht
Works at Galerie Albrecht
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