This is a very nice drawing, Dave, 2009/2010

Painting with oil on canvas

Dimensions: 150 x 110 cm

Hubert Scheibl's works demand that we switch from the overall view to the detailed view and vice versa when we look at them. Behind this is, as Dan Cameron puts it: " ... his constant struggle to find ways to lead us to the luminous heights of contemplation through the pure visual power of painting."

"In the alchemy of seeing, the limit of our images is the limit of our world," Hubert Scheibl himself says about the connection of the perception of images to that of the whole world. "His painterly investigations revolve around the limits of the visible, around the unfathomable, around the errant seduction of the surface," adds Margit Zuckriegl in a text about Scheibl. The openness of painting is Scheibl's programme. The artist explores the limits of the format, he creates a painterly-graphic language in which time appears as a dynamic moment.

Hubert Scheibl studied with Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He lived in New York for several years and his thinking was strongly influenced by American writers and filmmakers such as John Williams, Philip Roth and Stanley Kubrick. Hubert Scheibl is one of the most important contemporary representatives of abstract painting in Austria.