Rainer Fetting. The Armory Show

Rainer Fetting (born 1949 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany) is one of the protagonists of the so-called "Junge Wilde", who at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s consciously turned to figurative, expressive, and color-intensive painting and thus opposed the abstract and conceptual tendencies prevailing in art at the time.

Among other things, Rainer Fetting's art was influenced by his encounters with the works of various artists of the New York School. For his expressive approach to figurative motifs, Fetting makes use of artistic principles such as Willem De Kooning's expressive painterly gestures or Jackson Pollock's famous color drippings. Although Rainer Fetting does not concentrate purely on the effect of color in his works, like Mark Rothko's famous color field paintings, he too often plays in his compositions with the conveyed emotionality of the chosen color palette.

In recent years, works by him have been exhibited in "Rainer Fetting ziet van Gogh" at Van Gogh Huis in Zundert, Netherlands, 2022, as well as in "Rainer Fetting“ at Dortmunder U, Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, Germany, 2021, and in "Rainer Fetting. Here are the lemons“ at Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Schloss Gottdorf in Schleswig, Germany, 2020. Rainer Fetting is currently included in the group exhibitions “Tutti Frutti” (14.07. – 17.09.2024) at the Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Germany, “Licked by the Waves I New Bathers in Art” (06.07. – 06.10.2024) at Museum MORE, Netherlands, “Beeldhonger – Hunger nach Bildern” (13.04. - 12.10.2024) at Museum No Hero, Netherlands, and “Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century” (16.06.2023 until further notice) at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.

In addition to his studio in Berlin, Rainer Fetting also works on the island of Sylt, Germany, which repeatedly serves as a source of inspiration for his works.

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