Michael Werner Gallery, New York is pleased to present cold tears released, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by German-born, New York-based painter Florian Krewer.
Psychologists, philosophers, scientists, and artists have long explored and analyzed the connection between dreams and the creative process. Both dreamers and artists utilize symbols or archetypes to access underlying, universal feelings and desires. In Krewer’s new paintings, animals often embody emotions or events that are too powerful or painful to depict directly. The artist’s paintings are his salve to the cruelty of man in modern society, which he views as manifested in humanitarian issues like poverty, climate change, and oppression. To Krewer, man is more isolated and displaced than ever, and his paintings depict the injustices, as well as the joy and glimmers of hope, that he sees in the modern world.
