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Deborah Schamoni is pleased to announce Francis Offman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, marking his inaugural presentation in Germany.Keep Looking: a platitude, a maxim, a last-resort. A call for understanding, a reminder to re-examine.Francis Offman’s work reconciles fragmentation and cohesion, division and community, using material strategies of accretion and abstraction to symbolic end. To look at one of his works is to speculate a landscape in suspended animation – scraps strewn in the aftermath of a seismic event; primordial soup teetering on coalescing, viewers tasked with the challenge of coherence.
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Deborah Schamoni freut sich, die erste Ausstellung von Francis Offman in der Galerie bekannt zu geben. Es ist zugleich die erste Ausstellung des Künstlers in Deutschland. Keep Looking – eine Binsenweisheit, eine Maxime, eine letzte Hoffnung. Die Aufforderung zu verstehen, eine Erinnerung daran, noch einmal genau hinzusehen. Francis Offman vereint in seiner Arbeit die Fragmentierung und den Zusammenhalt, das Trennende und und die Gemeinschaft. Er verwendet Materialstrategien wie Akkretion und Abstraktion und zielt dabei aufs Symbolische. Eine Arbeit Offmans zu betrachten, ist wie eine Spekulation über eine Landschaft in angehaltener Bewegung – darin verstreut die Überreste eines seismischen Ereignisses, eine Ursuppe, kurz davor zu verschmelzen; und es ist an den Betrachter:innen, die Zusammenhänge herzustellen.
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Wednesday – Friday 12 – 6 pm
Saturday 12 – 4 pm and by appointment
Francis Offman
Keep Looking
10.02. – 13.04.2024
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Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 30 × 45 cm -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 50 × 49 cm -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2020-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 219 × 269 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2020-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 219 × 269 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2020-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 219 × 269 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2020-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 219 × 269 cm -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 222 × 283 cm -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled (detail), 2023-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 juta, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on jute, 220 × 297 cm -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Installation view, Francis Offman, Keep Looking, Deborah Schamoni, 2024 -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 cotton, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on cotton, 37 × 51 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 24 × 28 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 30 × 36 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 lino, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 30 × 36 cm -
Francis Offman, Untitled, 2022-2024
Acrylic, paper, 100 linen, coffee grounds, Bolognese plaster on linen, 19 × 33 cm