The German painter Jens Rausch, who has Hessian roots, has always been interested in forests. He uses this subject above all to depict processes, structures, decay, material properties and natural cycles. His forest and woodland works are always also material pictures - not so much painted as made: for the artist artistically thinns out the naturally grown structures and material properties with sharp knives and tools - entirely in the sense of a man-made intervention.

Jens Rausch's works tell of the vitality of painterly means and the "recovery" of the image from the material. ... "BERGEN" showsga surprising way of bringing the world into the picture. From materials that were once mountains themselves.

It is what it is: earth, crushed brick, lime, ash and soot... "_MILES" is a description of the structures and surfaces of our world and is reminiscent of a view from an airplane or satellite images - realistic, abstract, topographical. In his new series of works "_MILES", Jens Rausch points to sceneries of our world; with his initially abstract-looking landscape formations, he creates an extremely realistic painting, to a constant change, fragility and brittleness of our earth's surface: processual, experimental and material.

yclical movements and cycles of becoming and passing are manifold in the history of art, its subjects and material traditions. Using the motif of the sunflower as an example, Jens Rausch explores active vanitas processes and dedicates his series of works to the experimental fields of an extraordinary interweaving of motif history and transformative material dynamics.