Nick Oberthaler Contemporary Art Exhibition plains/portals at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais

Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents new paintings by Austrian artist Nick Oberthaler, exploring the canvas as a threshold. The exhibition features large-scale geometric works alongside intimate, gestural pieces that examine the relationship between abstraction, depth, and spatial illusion.

Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents plains/portals, an exhibition of new paintings by Austrian artist Nick Oberthaler. The large-scale works on view form a continuation of the artist's exploration of the canvas as a threshold or window, balancing geometric abstraction with alluring depths of implied illusionistic space. By playing with historical principles of painting theory, Oberthaler creates new conceptual frameworks where oblique lines and flat planes of color gesture toward the didactic history of linear perspective, causing images to flicker between two-dimensionality and spatial illusion. Across these works, Oberthaler engages with the Renaissance conception of the painting as a window, referencing Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435 treatise De pictura while simultaneously destabilizing it. The smaller, more intimate paintings in the exhibition are markedly more gestural, revealing the artist's focus on brushwork and the material qualities of the canvas. Together, these works create a dialogue between the digital and the natural, geometry and gesture, and surface and depth, challenging the viewer's habitual ways of looking at a painting.

The exhibition is open to the public at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais during gallery hours. No booking information is specified for general entry on the exhibition page.