Eberhard Havekost, Made in Germany, BO6, 2006, Oil on canvas, Diptych. Each: 11 7/16 x 19 11/16 in. (29 x 50 cm)

LONDON, ENGLAND.- White Cube Hoxton Square is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Eberhard Havekost. Over the past decade, Havekost has emerged as among the most innovative surveyors of figuration in contemporary painting. A Havekost painting begins with a photograph, either one taken by the artist or an image that he has sourced from the media. Using a computer, Havekost might crop, stretch, skew or tweak the colours of the picture, or leave it almost untouched, before making an inkjet print that he uses as the direct source material for the final painting. To create the five-canvas work Background, B06 the artist took a series of photographs, all at low exposure, of some rubble and debris he came across in Berlin. He then adjusted the sense of space and levels of brightness, altering the hue and tone to give them an even, almost featureless light. Amid the slabs of wood and spiky wreckage, a slash of blue board emerges in every second picture, a motif that serves both to balance the canvases and highlight the subtle differences in each composition. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19603