In the world machine
In the world machine by Ernst A. Busche Florian Pelka‘s dramas are at once disturbing and powerful, threatening and vital. His world is not a friendly one, it is full of insecurity and danger, fatigue and apocalyptic mood. Surreal spaces are filled with mysterious human figures, with animals and strange hybrids. The disaster seems to […]
New German Painting
New German Painting published by Christoph Tannert, Prestel Munich 2007, 256 pages, 140 pictures, german/ english, ISBN: 3-7913-3666-5 Now is the time for us to cast our comparing eye over the pictures painted by Florian Pelka (Berlin) who, bored by the beautiful virtual reality of fashion, has also lowered the temperature of his paintings (fig. […]
The Slaughtering of Paradises
The Slaughtering of Paradises by Christoph Tannert (curator, director Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin) The compelling power of inner pictures, whether in painterly or sculptural form, is a fascination. Indeed, it develops only when it pertains to an experimental game with imagination within a dialogue-driven constellation with its own dynamic. Through Florian Pelka?s paintings floats a blissful […]
An Overdose of a Painterly Substance of Desire
An Overdose of a Painterly Substance of Desire by Christoph Tannert (curator, Berlin) The first thing one notices about Florian Pelka’s new paintings is the excessive desire for the lushness of the paint itself; a contagious, pulling feeling – also for the viewer – of something unidentifiable but that repeatedly demands to be stilled. Then […]
The Recollected and the Fictive
The Recollected and the Fictive Dr. Jürgen Schilling (Art historian, Berlin) In Florian Pelka’s painting, immediately clear, figurative elements merge with diffuse abstract parts. These elements veil space and perspective, regulate the modulation of light, construct connections or even lop alleged contextual references that seem to communicate with each other. From these develop staggered, roaming, […]
An Approach
An Approach Birgit Acar (Art and Film historian, Berlin) What power accumulates from the emblematic, abbreviated representation of reality, the visual clichés and icons of the information and consumer society? Which methods of the appearance of reality ? which increasingly is transmitted only via the media ? condition our perception? It is in these areas […]