Pinakothek der Moderne

Gert & Uwe Tobias’s large-scale woodcuts, vibrant collages, and delicately nuanced typewriter drawings are characterized by an overflowing imagination, ascetic craftsmanship, and comic profundity. Their inimitable style has lost none of its radicalism and continues to span a bridge between high and low brow in a strikingly inventive way.

In their latest series >Grisaille<, created exclusively for today’s show at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, the artists focus their gaze on a little-known tradition in the history of panel painting. With their painting entirely in shades of grey the artists rediscover and reinterpret the charm of this centuries-old technique. In the twilight of a monochromy never before seen in their work, the brothers’ images display a rich shadow-life that flickers with such ambiguity that it at times becomes wholly exaggerated.