Exhibition at rodolphe janssen presents works by Gert & Uwe Tobias
(Artdaily.org)

The visual language of Gert & Uwe Tobias is like a vibration between realms. It teeters on an imaginative edge between the contemporary and the archaic, the figurative and the abstract, portraiture and still life, the deeply alluring and the grotesque. For their fifth solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, the Tobias brothers’ quirky play of opposites feels familiar, as if from a dream. Engaging with the technique of xylography, the artistic duo’s woodcuts redevelop and subvert this ancient craft for their own conceptual ambitions. The resulting imagery is absolutely signature–autobiographical, even–for it is also a visual ode to their home country of Romania, its costume and mythology, where they grew up before their family immigrated to Germany. There is distinct rhythm and movement to the Tobias brothers’ compositions as one’s eyes graze over their entire body of works, as though figures and graphic lines partake in a mysterious choreography. The whites o