Raffael Bader

With references to introspection and a bold semi-abstract approach to landscape painting, German artist Raffael Bader provokes a lightness to the way we view our journey with planet Earth. His practice consists of a range of self-reflective oil paintings that allow viewers to contemplate the complexities and harmonies of human emotion. While his works first look like semi-abstract landscapes, Bader is interested in the relationship that occurs between humans and natural ecosystems. He has come to realize that what happens in the outside world also happens within ourselves. Bader looks into the environment for motifs that allow him to cope with the questions, wants, longings, and so on that he has within him. The series and individual pieces then evolve concurrently, and he decides on the spur of the moment what he will continue to work on.

Submitted by Enari Gallery