pretty fucking good world, I’d say, 2024

The artwork pledge

• GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
• QUALITY EDUCATION
• CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• CLIMATE ACTION
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Abstract
• Arts and Politics
• Berlin
• Conceptual Art
• Figurative
• Germany
• Memory
• Music
• New Realism
• Painting
• Social
• Utopia

About this artwork

With ironic nonchalance, Malte Zenses’ (*1987) paintings and sculptures expand the vocabulary of abstract painting and new realism by pointedly integrating the zeitgeist of his generation through autobiographical fragments. His inspiration often begins with a memory, a place or a snapshot. Disguising the personal references, he uses his own set of abstract codes made up of personal symbols, signs and lyrics. Rather than implementing his own story through known codes, he educes the viewers own memories while capturing the spirit of our ceaseless journey between the digital and the analogue. Through this play of codes and tones, words and signs, Malte Zenses develops his own visual language and aesthetic. Formalistically not bound by materiality or media, he constantly relates between different places and harmonizes the personal and impersonal. His artistic practice can therefore also be described as an appropriation, translation and recycling of experienced reality.

More artworks by Malte Zenses

• Malte Zenses Blick auf den Garten, 2024 Sperling €10,000 Buy now
• Malte Zenses More! Burn it all!, 2022 Sperling €6,800 Buy now
• Malte Zenses Reportage, 2023 Sperling €4,700 Buy now
• Malte Zenses Sonnenuntergang mit Schmetterling #5, 2024 Sperling €1,200 Buy now

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