Nikolai Tanton is one of the quiet protagonists of a young art scene characterized by contemplative depth and sensitively modulated colour worlds. With his exhibition “Last Days in Paradise,” he presented a group of works at Munich’s Kunstraum Weltraum in 2026 in which graphic precision meets atmospheric density. A characteristic of his working method is glazed layers of colour that suggest emotions rather than express them. The watercolour presented here is composed in a flat manner and kept in dark, earthy tones. The figure appears en face, at once enigmatic and emotionally charged. The transparent, heavy-looking fields of colour create a quiet, emotionally dense image that is memorable less for its realistic detail than for its psychological presence.
Consigned by Nikolai Eberth and Falk von Schönfels, with thanks to Studio Fluctibus in Munich
