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Hahn’s paintings amaze the viewer from the first moment of viewing with their meticulous, highly precise artistry. His brushstrokes seem to effortlessly take on old master skill and painterly virtue, but the motifs immediately reveal that we are in the here and now. Dreamlike and unreal human-animal figures are up to mischief, salamanders juggle with their own spots, monkey heads form themselves out of finely coiled ropes and at the same time suck them into their greedy mouths like far too long spaghetti.

Eckart Hahn addresses the sensual-haptic capacities of our perception by translating the …