Eberhard Ross: Looks Good on Paper

5 - 19 October 2023

Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present never-before-seen works in an exhibition of stunning colours, texture and composition. German artist, Eberhard Ross, implements calligraphic networks of lines and patterns that develop organically and repetitively in his various works on paper.

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Artworks
Eberhard Ross
Speicher (p00314), 2014
Oil on paper
15 3/4 x 15 in.
40 x 38 cm.
Eberhard Ross

Untitled (p10823), 2023

Signed, titled & dated verso

Watercolour and gouache on paper

10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.
26 x 18 cm.
Eberhard Ross lives and works between Mülheim and Frankfurt. He describes how “the original source of my work is nature, and its rhythms and patterns... I hear colours breathing and watch their sounds. A second important base of my works is Zen Buddhism, which I practice for many years. A further basic task which I try to realize with my works is expressed best in a quote by Agnes Martin, the wonderful Canadian painter. She once said “when I think of art I think of beauty - beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds is awareness of perfection. All art work is about beauty"."
Eberhard Ross
Untitled (p06023), 2023 Watercolour and gouache on paper
24 x 18 1/8 in.
61 x 46 cm.
Artworks
Eberhard Ross
Untitled (p11323), 2023
"For me, colours are sounding. I look at colours and they sound back. It's a resonant relationship between me and the colours."

- Eberhard Ross
In Ross' abstract Speicher, White Writing, and Fermata paintings, he painstakingly covers canvases with calligraphic networks of lines and patterns that develop organically and repetitively. The "Speicher" ("Memory") paintings "contain and store energy — the energy I put in.” In contrast, the artist describes how ""Fermata” is a certain musical composition which announces to hold a single tone or chord, so it can sound, or rather breathe.” For Ross, painting is a meditative process. He is fascinated by patterns in nature such as the spiral forms of shells, leaves, butterfly wings, and plant cells. As he tries to interpret the natural ‘lines and curves’ found in nature, he is also exploring how the tones and hues of colour are affected by the mark-making.
Eberhard Ross
Soundcloud (p10023), 2023 Watercolour on paper
12 1/4 x 9 in.
31 x 23 cm.
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“For me, colours are sounding. I look at colours and they sound back. It’s a resonant relationship between me and the colours.”

- Eberhard Ross
- Eberhard Ross, Soundcloud (p10123), 2023
- Eberhard Ross, Soundcloud (p10023), 2023

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