Henri Haake is one of the most distinctive voices of a young generation of Berlin painters. His work emerges from the tension between accumulation, overpainting, and dissolution. At its core are transitional states: moments in which forms lose their footing and oscillate between recognizability and opacity. The painting “Aloe Vera” makes this process visible on the surface itself. The grainy sand structure refracts the light, while figurative outlines emerge from the depths of the layers of paint like fragments of memory. The image cannot be grasped at a glance—it unfolds as you look at it, between playful openness and painterly depth.
Consigned by Henri Haake
