Andreas Werner »the mad abstract dark, ground it«

the mad abstract dark, ground it, 2023

Andreas Werner created five technoid-looking monuments, executed as photogravures in different subtle colors, making each work unique. In the mad abstract dark, ground it a hybrid construction of UFO, alien and at the same time temple, as well as architectural landscape - shapes itself as a mysterious structure.

Werner plays with the perception of reality and poses the question of the readability of symbols with his work whilst opening up new spaces for possible fantasies of the future and offering a discourse between archaic past and posthuman vision.

Andreas Werner

Andreas Werner (*1984, Merseburg an der Saale, Germany) works primarily in the medium of drawing and understands how to use the variety of expressive possibilities it offers and embed them in new realities. His depictions range from romantic landscapes and naturalistic images, rock formations and scientific designs, to abstract structures and architectural utopias, to post-media aesthetics and digital disruptions. Upon closer inspection, many questions surrounding Werner's work emerge. What do we see here? Are these buildings, temples, rockets, or robots? The actual nature of the objects, however, remains unanswered.

Read our studio story with Andreas Werner.

Texts: Livia Klein
Photo: Maximilian Pramatarov