ALL PATHS LEAD TO ANSWERS
08.09.2023 – 15.10.2023
Jan Schmelcher
Galerie Greulich
Jan Schmelcher (*1968) studied illustration at the Frankfurt Academy of Communication & Design, followed by American studies and art history with a focus on film at Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2003 to 2007 he lived as a language teacher, artist, and illustrator in Tokyo, and in 2008 in Shanghai. Today Schmelcher lives in Wiesbaden and London. He regularly writes about literature for the Hessischer Rundfunk.
Using the appropriation of found mass media images, Schmelcher's artistic practice revolves around themes of imagination, sentimentality, and machismo filtered through nostalgia and irony. At the moment, he is working on a series of drawings that explore the theme of desperate hedonism at the endpoint of the great utopian narratives in the sixties and seventies. Appearing in it are, among others: Gerard Lébovici (the publisher Guy Débords), Catherine Deneuve, Father Yod, the international playboy Prince Ruspoli, the author Emmanuelle Arsan. Settings: The flash of a film premiere, the Alps, nightclubs, beaches, streets. Black and white on yellowed, foxing paper. For these pencil drawings, as in all his works in different media, the artist uses found, used material, torn-off posters and the like.
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