Jakob Roepke
August 31st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
The work of Jakob Roepke seems to inhabit one room. Granted, it is a room of endless possibilities, where patterns layer on top of patterns, and fish can fly, and dinosaurs are pets. Each work is populated by an everyman, sometimes two, in subdued casual office clothes. He never seems surprised by the weirdness he finds himself in, each work is a new, twisted situation through which he saunters with relative ease, or labors in oblivious to the implications.
Roepke is a German artist, whose body of work is an endless re-creation of this basic format with paint and collage. The works are a bit surreal, but colorful and playful. While they are limited in scope, when viewed as an overall group one can’t help but admire the variation used. Limits force us to work in interesting ways, to look at something from more than one angle. Roepke’s works are filled with a dedicated sense of nuance.
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All artwork is copyright Jakob Roepke. All images posted above were borrowed from the site of Jarmuschek + Partners Gallery, who represent him.
