Jonathan Lasker: Double Play

In the organizer's words:

With Double Play, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents the sixth solo exhibition by Jonathan Lasker. The focus is on his large-format, striking paintings from the mid to late 1980s, which are combined with more recent small formats on a white background. The exhibition begins in a phase in which Lasker's idiosyncratic and analytical approach to painting, which he had been developing for decades, began to consolidate. Continuities and surprising twists emerge both within individual paintings and across their diverse surfaces.

Doublings and repetitions play a prominent role in Lasker's work. They can be found in lines - as in the double lines of his more recent works, which seem to radiate a pulsating energy - or between a form and its shadow, its silhouette or its negative space. They can also appear as inversions, outlines or enlargements. Sometimes repetitive doublings turn into patterns that waver and shift.

There is a subtle playfulness in Double Play, as well as play as a staged and strategic process. In Lasker's works, the spontaneous can become structural and the structural spontaneous. The tendency to combine and interweave creates images in perpetual motion and dynamic interplay - a simultaneous existence in two places.