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Eberhard Havekost

Eberhard Havekost (Born 1967) is active/lives in United States, Germany.  Eberhard Havekost is known for Painting from photo and video-ordinary subjects.

Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface.

Working from photographic sources - shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own photographs - he selects prosaic subjects ranging from anonymous buildings, trains and trailers, and modifies them to make inkjet prints as the departure point for his paintings. His paintings elude straightforward classification: mundane images that are abstracted into a kind of mannerism of the everyday. Havekost's paintings are executed in colour on top of a six underlying and alternating coats of grey and white. This slow, careful process creates a luminous atmosphere that makes the paintings glow with a strange, otherworldly richness of light. Havekost describes this as a 'democratic light' that reveals the immanent brilliance of everything. The compositions of his paintings are often ene   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1943 characters.]  Artist bio

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