KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is happy to current NACHTSCHWÄRMEN by Rasmus Eckhardt, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. In NACHTSCHWÄRMEN, Eckhardt turns to Berlin, his adopted metropolis, as each stage and labyrinth. Throughout sixteen new works, figures drift via the half-light of streets and rooms, guided by the quiet rhythm of the evening. Inside this wandering, a presence returns time and again—typically close to, typically misplaced—sensed within the faces of strangers, within the scent of town, within the fog that softens its outlines. The search continues via encounters and silences, goals and fragments of reminiscence, as if love itself have been a path with no clear vacation spot. Seen via sleepless eyes, town turns into a silent confidant, echoing the heartbeat of longing that strikes via its empty streets and shadowed corners, when the world feels each infinite and intimately shut.
There’s something cinematic but deeply personal in these works, as if every picture have been captured on the sting of forgetting. The figures linger, neither arriving nor leaving, suspended between a dream that refuses to fade and a day that has not but begun. Eckhardt paints as if tracing the afterglow of a reminiscence, a world poised between wakefulness and reverie. By his distinct dealing with of coloration and lightweight, he evokes moments that appear each distant and deeply acquainted, as if recalled via the comfortable blur of recollection.
His approach, combining pastel, chalk, and sandpaper, lends the work their hazy luminosity. These surfaces hum with a quiet stress, balancing tenderness and unease, actuality and the realm of goals.
