The bechter kastowsky gallery is showing the first solo exhibition of the artist Liliane Tomasko, who lives in New York, Bavaria, Berlin and Barcelona. After studying sculpture, Tomasko committed herself to painting and has taken a new path in her current works. Moving away from figurative imagery, she opens up the cosmos of colour, traces and gestures for the viewer.
"Around 2015, Liliane Tomasko opened a new chapter in her painting, which now sees itself as a system completely detached from the subject. However, the artist still holds on to the woven fabric as a rudimentary model - the title of the exhibition is also texere (Latin for "to weave") - but the translation with oil and acrylic is at the greatest possible distance from the referent. The act of painting per se takes centre stage. Tomasko is by no means interested in heroic gestures, in brute force drawing of traces to manifest authorship in the sense of the action painters of Abstract Expressionism. Rather, it is a broken hybrid system that expresses doubt about the masterpiece. Heterogeneous, subtle painterly surfaces meet harsh brushstrokes. Sometimes the spray is used, colour runs down. Painting and smearing interpenetrate each other. Forms and traces overlap, threatening to obliterate each other. The black line breaks through the mostly multi-coloured conglomerate of brushstrokes as a strict pictorial framework, suggesting order and a will to form. The pictorial structure does not remain in a static unambiguousness, but shows itself as a shimmering, changing, open being. It oscillates between pictorial surface and space, openness and unity, form and pure structure, the graphic and the painterly, subtle noblesse and restless abruptness." (Excerpt from the text "Texere - painting as an abstract fabric" by Florian Steininger)
