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Rapidly growing floods of images and artificial intelligence have made art almost inevitably into a commentary on the illusion of actuality. Jana Schrö der, Peppi Bottrop und Andreas Breunig present drawings in the Gesellschaft fü r Gegenwartskunst in Augsburg. 20:15 is the title of the exhibition and this book. The three artists share a philosophical approach to their medium: "" Our paintings are a response to the given conditions of pictoriality. We are here to deconstruct and ask what images really are."" The art historian Christian Malycha questions the three artists, together regarding the exhibition concept, and individually about the evolution of their works. The conversations provide illuminating glimpses into the ongoing discourse about painting's relevance.

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Christian Alexander Malycha is a German art historian. Jana Schrö der is known for a practice grounded in irreducible and frenetic painting techniques. A devoted formalist, she produces paintings which are largely governed by the action of the paint itself, resulting in webs of languid, curling brushstrokes that guide viewers' roving eyes. Looping brushstrokes contain subtle variations in saturation, producing an effect of depth, like a many-layered web that advances towards and recedes from the viewer. Peppi Bottrop (b. 1986 in Bottrop, Germany) lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf in 2014, where he studied under Albert Oehlen, Andreas Schulze and Jutta Koether. Bottrop, who bears the name of the German town in which he was born, grew up in the industrial districts of the Ruhrgebiet, once the country's largest and most prosperous coal-mining region. Andreas Breunig (born 1983 in Eberbach/Odenwald) lives and works in Dü sseldorf. He studied until 2008 at Kunstakademie Du] sseldorf under Albert Oehlen and is represented by Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Alexander Warhus, Cologne.

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