1234tf Black and White Series 150x450 cm Oil Painting 2008

1234tf Color Series No. 1, 150x450 cm, Oil on canvas, 2008. Tobias Lehner "12 34yf" Solo Exhibition: On display at Suzanne Trarasieve Gallery from January 17 to March 7. Tobias Lehner (born 1974) is one of the painters of the current Leipzig School in Germany. In this contemporary painting art seeking new paths and visual possibilities, it has become another route for European painting; they are not limited to figurative or abstract styles, with particularly complex compositions full of visual tension and imaginative space within their rigor and exuberance.

This eye-catching exhibition theme "12 34yf" references a chemical element proven to be toxic, still used in contemporary German automobiles (refrigerant), an environmentally unfriendly practice sparking controversy that adds to the current crisis in the automotive industry like snow on top of frost; this theme targets criticism of this aspect. Tobias Lehner's works mix rigorous geometry with chaotic fragmented imagery, contrasting with multiple dazzling colors, or sometimes organized purely in black and white, overlapping multiple elements and worlds, engaging in dialogue between chaos and order, tension and harmony, rationality and sensibility, constructing a contemporary extraordinary abstract painting of rigor and exuberance.