Galerie Fons Welters opens exhibition of works by Sven Kroner
(Artdaily.org)

Galerie Fons Welters opened Sven Kroner’s seventh solo exhibition in the gallery: In the Studio. Simultaneously natural and unreal are the compositions in Kroner`s paintings. His characteristic landscapes have changed in recent years: through the open windows and colourful greenhouses, the painter has moved on to the interior landscape in which the studio has become the subject. Within a striking play of lines of window frames, floorboards, light surfaces and shadows, `wonderful mise-en-scènes, [..] remarkable images appear in the ambiguous idiom of realism, which is then not completely to be trusted. They are bizarre paintings.” writes Rudi Fuchs in Kroner`s new monograph. In Sven Kroner`s recent work, the landscape has entered the inner world: it grows from the floor and the walls of the studio onto the canvas. More explicitly - and not rarely with humour - he also illustrates the artificialness that is enclosed in his