Jens Rausch's new works tell of the vitality of painterly means and the "recovery" of the image from the material. The ridge mountains, crest mountains, chain mountains or folds of his "BERGEN" series show a surprising way of bringing the world into the picture. Using materials that were once mountains themselves, such as marble powder or lime, melt water or graphite, he creates works that captivate with their poetry and at the same time completely throw classical painting overboard.

The viewer is invited to follow the artist on the trail of a new pictorial way of thinking, to join him on an expedition into the realm of formative possibilities, for instead of providing a faithful reproduction of reality, the artist plays with the structures and surfaces and with the inherent dynamics of chemical processes, which breathe a form of life into the picture in the truest sense of the word. The myth of the vitality of painting is brought to the point here, the picture within reach. It grows into the space through the sculptural treatment of the support material - the mountain is often a real mountain, the unfolding an actual elevation of the material.