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It seems as though the huge golden ovals hanging in the central room of the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle have absorbed the blood-red paint on them. In the interior of the egg shapes, blossoms sprout from red splashes. As though through delicate veins, the red pulsates over the canvases, drips, sprays, flows. Imran Qureshi's paintings are at once cold and warm. Covered with gold leaf, they emanate an almost sacred stringency. They hang in the room like icons. But inside the works, everything is full of movement, organic, dirty, human. Qureshi's paintings convey both a kind of viral anarchic energy and extreme control. This tension runs through all of his current work, reflecting a very fundamental real conflict. Order can create clarity and tranquility, but it can also restrict and suppress. We are afraid of change, unrest, and destruction, which can culminate in violence and bloodshed. At the same time, they form the basis of the creative process, for the genesis of something new.
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