Abstract minimalist paintings by Christian Rietz

Unevenness, overpainting, deliberately placed empty spaces: Christian Rietz's minimalist painting is characterised by subtle colour nuances and an emphasis on materiality. In his works, fields of colour overlap like shimmering layers. Vibrating spaces, the soft murmur of an overexposed moment, small blurred areas. Areas of the painting that appear like narrow portals tell us that perception is never neutral. That we are constantly filtering, deleting, adding – that we always see what we want to see. Rietz's works open up a space of resonance in which perception itself becomes the subject. The white, the noise, the fragile silhouettes, all of this invites us to look more closely, but also to perceive our own projections.