Flowerpainting (Barça 1),, 2022

Although the paintings of David Roth (1985, Austria) are purely abstract, you can lose your way in them as in a landscape. We see a midnight blue and royal blue that seem to have been applied to the canvas at great speed. A blood-red lurking behind them. A transparent black that gives the composition weight. For this painting Roth used not only conventional substances such as acrylic paint and powdered pigment, he also used flowers as paint brushes, leaving behind the residues of the flower petals.

In his work Roth does in-depth research into the art of painting. The creation of a painting and all that this entails are for him just as important as the end result. Everything is of equal value: the painted canvas, the palette and the cloth he uses to wipe his paintbrushes. Every surface with traces of the working process can crop up in the work. Roth combines painting materials from different eras which sometimes clash, and sometimes show something completely new.