Galerie RX&SLAG
Paul Wesenberg , Germany
"Found New Paradise"
Paul Wesenberg, Carmin River, 2024, huile sur toile, toile cirée, 200 x 150 cm, Courtesy RX&SLAG
For his 3rd solo show at galerie RX&SLAG Paris, Berlin artist Paul Wesenberg presents a series of new canvases in an exhibition entitled Found new paradise.
Paul Wesenberg is an artist influenced by the German New Leipzig School movement, an artists’ collective that emerged in the 1990s. This third generation of artists has no clearly defined message or characteristics. Their works combine figurative and abstract elements, leaving plenty of room for experimentation.
In Paul Wesenberg’s painting, a decisive balance of power emerges from a harmonious blend of concreteness and abstraction.
The title of his exhibition Found new paradise echoes his last show at SLAG&RX New York in 2024, Half Past Paradise. The title was inspired by the poem Water from Another Source by poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky. This poem was a source of inspiration for the artist, who used it as a starting point for his art. He considers the cultural concept of paradise to be one of mankind’s oldest. Its cultural history accompanies us without interruption, and the way humanity perceives itself has always been reflected in the representation of paradise. In his paintings, through a pictorial translation of sun spots, reflections on water, and leopards whose eyes shimmer in a verdant darkness, the artist gives us a vision of what “eternal serenity” could be.
Solo show of Paul Wesenberg
From May 3rd to June 14th, 2025
The gallery
Founded in 2002 by Éric Rodrigue and Éric Dereumaux, the RX Gallery, located in the heart of the Marais since 2016, presents the work of some twenty recognized visual artists from the French and international scene. The layout of their new space offers the gallery's artists new exhibition perspectives and encourages collaborations with international curators and artists. Each exhibition allows for simultaneous installations, creating a dialogue between the works of different artists from gallery or those invited, allowing for several solo shows to coexist. The gallery also develops projects with public and private institutions. In 2021 the gallery established itself in the United States in association with the Slag Gallery, which has now been present in New York for the past 15 years. The new entity, RX&SLAG, creates a dynamic in which the mutualization of both galleries expertise, on the French and American scene, will contribute to reveal a young artistic scene while also developing the representation of historical transatlantic artists.
Gallery artists
El Anatsui, Bae Bien-U, Mrdjan Bajic, Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Pascal Convert, Raymond Depardon, Elger Esser, Jean-François Fourtou, Vincent Gicquel, H.K. Kwon, Fabrice Hyber, Alain Kirili, Tarama Kostianovsky, Christian Lapie, Lee Bae, Anna Malagrida, Hermann Nitsch, Georges Rousse, Samuel Rousseau, Naomi-Hon, Julio Villani...
