Perpetuum Florens , Horst Janssen Museum Oldenburg

22.06 - 20.10.2024

Ever-blooming - these are the plants that Miron Schmückle shows in the most magnificent colours in the finest watercolour and drawing techniques on paper. Ever-flowering, seductive and perfect, the flowers, stems and leaves are arranged by the artist into seemingly endless roundels. They spring from his imagination, botanically plausible, but invented and imagined.

Beguiling drawings
The technically sophisticated and motivically beguiling drawings from the last twenty years are at the centre of the "Perpetuum florens" show and, for the first time, we are also showing a selection of preparatory sketches at the Horst Janssen Museum. In the photographic series "Hortus Conclusus" from 2003, Schmückle carefully presents individual plants in front of his naked upper body and allows the flower, which served as an attribute of the portrayed person in the Renaissance, to become the main protagonist. Reflection and artistic exploration of the plant kingdom, which is the basis of all life, are central concerns in Schmückle's work