In the A.G. Gallery for contemporary art, the following artists, all of whom live in Mecklenburg, have joined forces: Miro Zahra, Mike Strauch, Udo Rathke, Matthias Kanter, Peter Klitta and Andreas Barth. Peter Kreissl is the director of the gallery.
Even though their artistic signatures are very different, their self-concept as artists unites them, granting colour and surface priority in the picture as decisive elements. Their artistic foundations were laid down in their student days at the High School for Fine Arts in Dresden or at the Berlin-Weißensee Art High School and it was a conscious decision for them to choose Mecklenburg as the location which should provide them with a central point for their lives and work. Although the artists employ various different media - for Andreas Barth and Matthias Kanter photography, Udo Rathke computer animation - the way they use these media always remains true to their artistic conceptions. Miro Zahra, Mike Strauch and Peter Klitta prefer to work with oil on canvass.
Whereas in the atmospheric and highly reductionist work of Miro Zahra the painting manifests itself as a kind of condensed time in which the structure is evoked as a memory of what has been seen, Mike Strauch alienates landscape and vegetative forms in his painting and creates with his pictures a new artificial atmospheric scenery. Peter Klitta often uses the human visage as the starting point for his artistic struggle which allows him to achieve forms of surprising alienation. The conceptual approach followed by Andreas Barth and Matthias Kanter has essentially made colour the material and theme of their work and has developed a much reduced picture language.
Udo Rathke gives preference to digital techniques in his work and adds the element of movement to colour and surface in his ‘moving paintings’.
Without using one of the designated exhibition rooms, the gallery office in Schloss Plüschow is the base where activities can be developed aimed at achieving a position in the art market. The gallery’s artists present their work in exhibition projects at external locations, also in a conscious dialogue with partners and artists who share their artistic conceptions.
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