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Andreas Schulze

<p>The life-sized paintings Traffic Jam by Andreas Schulze are arranged as a classical frieze – albeit one in which the traffic of these intriguing vehicles has come to a standstill. Despite the pictures’ imposing scale, they appear surprisingly free of pathos. Instead, they stand out for their strong color scheme and rudimentary, almost naive forms.</p><p>A project Schulze has repeatedly returned to since the 1990s, Traffic Jam perfectly illustrates his distinctive style of painting that combines figuration and abstraction. lt demonstrates his unique pictorial language, which is timeless but also resolutely up-to-date, by offering humorous, multilayered commentary on today’s overload of images, the consumerism of daily life and, with recurring clouds of exhaust fumes, even climate change – not with a wagging finger, but through colorful and vibrant images that emphasize the joy of life.</p><p><strong>Andreas Schulze </strong>(born 1955 in Hanover, Germany) has played a key role in German painting since the 1980s. As an attentive observer of our everyday surroundings, he has developed an autonomous visual language that questions our collective habits in colorful pictorial worlds. Schulze lives and works in Cologne.</p>

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Traffic-Jam

Sprüth Magers

OVR: Basel

Traffic Jam