Michael van Ofen

Landschaft (C. Blechen)
Oil on canvas (53x47cm), 2012

«Through his unique visual language of considered, precisely-sculpted brushstrokes, Van Ofen knowingly uses the limitations of these [oils paintings from the Nineteenth Century] as starting points for his own meticulous reinvention.»

"Van Ofen's gesture is not about returning to convention, but rather revisiting the still-relevant embers of what painting, and only painting, can effect." by Jens Hoffmann, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk catalogue, 2011

All the painting essence is just their. In front of us. All the noise, has gone!