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Kai Schröder

1993 - Germany

Contemporaries

His untitled work is labyrinthine, suggesting maps, topographies of distant planets, highly detailed diagrams, or the complex crystalline structures of rocks seen under a microscope. But on closer inspection, one realizes that viewing the complexity of his work as a simple deconstruction of existing objects is far too simplistic.

Schröder's work focuses primarily on structures—chaotic, complex, even raging—born from his imagination. While they allude to reality, they do not attempt to depict it. Schröder draws in ink, tracing fine lines and subtly shading the resulting forms with colored pencil. The result is both impressive and disorienting. And yet, one always has the feeling of having discovered something new in Schröder's work. Schröder's drawings are equally suggestive, drawing inspiration from moments of observation and memory, and exuding an anarchic joy in weaving together the fantastic and the real in a kind of tapestry.

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