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Christian Lindow

After exhibiting geometric sculptures and conceptual photographs, Christian Lindow began to paint in an illustrative style. Before long, his paint thickened, became more gestural, and his motifs became indistinguishable from brisk, broad brushstrokes that characterize the overall architecture of his paintings. While the artist’s output from 1977 onward seems to fall squarely within the then-dominant currents of Germanic Neo-Expressionism, Lindow’s paintings sever the association we have come to take for granted between, on the one hand, the discernible intensity and speed of their execution and, on the other, the expression of the artist’s subjectivity. The vast majority of his paintings feature a single, central motif. Selected for their ubiquitous quality, they appear to us as readymade images. And even when he selects subjects that come from his immediate surroundings, such as his own recent figurative wooden sculptures, or his wife’s face, the quality (or lack thereof) of his reproductive treatment suggests an already mediated origin. —Fabrice Stroun

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Plums), n.d.

    oil on canvas
    35.43 x 51.18 in (90 x 130 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Ohne Titel (Aepfel), 1989

    oil on canvas
    47.24 x 62.99 in (120 x 160 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled, (rose), 1988

    oil on canvas
    11.81 x 11.81 in (30 x 30 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Ohne Titel, (Pflaumen), 1988

    oil on canvas
    62.99 x 47.24 in (160 x 120 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Woman's Head, Sad), 1986

    oil on cotton
    47.24 x 35.43 in (120 x 90 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Still Life), 1984

    oil on canvas
    31.5 x 31.5 in (80 x 80 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Beach), 1982

    oil on cotton
    22.83 x 28.74 in (58 x 73 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Beach Storm), 1981

    acrylic, oil on canvas
    70.87 x 90.55 in (180 x 230 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, untitled (mountain), 1981

    acrylic on cotton
    70.87 x 90.55 in (180 x 230 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Moutain (Green Meadow), 1981

    acrylic, oil on canvas
    70.87 x 90.55 in (180 x 230 cm)

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  • Christian Lindow, Untitled (Lake), 1981

    oil on cotton
    58.27 x 84.65 in (148 x 215 cm)

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