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His studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden he completed in 1994 under Professor Ralf Kerbach.
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Thoralf Knobloch
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In 2005 he among others represented Germany at the Prague Biennale. Knobloch is represented by Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden/Berlin, and Wilkinson Gallery, London, where his work was exhibited in 2007 at the opening show of the new gallery space.
Once his attention is attracted, the painter cautiously becomes involved with the motif.
Often he returns to vary the focus or perspective of the seen. Hereby, his sight is distant, neutral, but not without sympathy.
The constant review of his and our perception of what we call reality adds an observatif character to his work. This becomes evident especially in works, in which Knobloch depicts an identical scene more than once, but from only slightly modified perspectives.
The impression of a filmic sequence is generated.
Yet, Knobloch’s works does not allow the audience to make up a story, which develops logically according to cause and effect. By detracting the scene from a temporal sequence, and by this means from any narrative context, Knobloch directs the perception of the audience onto the artwork itself. In most cases, he puts everyday items in the centre of his work.
In doing so, the visible is not deposed of its seemingly vacuity.
The power of these works comes from the intense uneventfulness of the seen. 2009 Thoralf Knobloch, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
2009 Essen, Trinken, Angeln, Galerie Gebr.
Lehmann, Berlin
2008 Von Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit, Sparkasse Essen, Essen
2007 Thoralf Knobloch, Wilkinson Gallery, London
2005 regional & saisonal, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
2004 Zweifel und Ruhe, Wilkinson Gallery, London
2003 Landpartie und Kuckucksruf, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt/Main
2003 Petit Côte, Vattenfall Europe, Berlin
2002 Streif- & Jagdzüge, Galerie Gebr.
Lehmann, Dresden.
