Johannes Zacherl
Johannes Zacherl is well-known for large-format figurative, gestural painting that features an expressionist presentation (from a formal perspective) of animals, people and things. He interprets the world through figures that are swept towards abstract and often tragic expression: dynamic bodies in virtually constant movement, dynamic painting that also seems to move for representational ends, and emotion that reveals the romantic, German, dark yet illuminating, ingenious and almost perverse personality that lies behind the work.
In this exhibition Johannes Zacherl has gone a little bit further, without going astray, by taking the figure of Donald Duck as a leitmotif. This collection features the well-known Disney character in disproportion and very different from the flat, advertising figure we know so well. In fact he appears quite the opposite; clown-like and monstrous with a mystery that both ridicules him yet makes a disconcerting reference to Los Caprichos by Goya.
The world twists in a dizzy spiral towards sublime glory and towards horrific disaster: When even Donald is no longer who he seems to be, then the world is ready to be fearlessly renamed, reinvented and rebuilt.
This is how Zacherl, both wizard and child, has experienced the initial months of fatherhood.
Johannes Zacherl has lived in Gaüses (Baix Empordà) for several years and has recently exhibited in Olot (Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa - County Museum of La Garrotxa), Berlin (Kunsthalle Die Zitadelle), Barcelona (Galeria Àmbit), and other sites.
Exhibition opening times: Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays and public holidays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. hs