The paintings of the Husum-born and Hamburg-based painter Jochen Hein (b. 1960) make the verdict postulated decades ago that painting has become obsolete with the ascendency of the visual media look ridiculous. Three large groups of works offer proof to the contrary — be it Hein’s masterfully painted, life-size portraits of contemporaries, who seem to appear out of a black nowhere, his realistic views of
the sea or his landscape paintings and grass pieces. The subjects are situated in the present and yet they rise above the depth of space and time. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
