Mixed media on aluminum composite board

Dave Bopp

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Dave Bopp is a Berlin-based artist whose paintings resemble an oscillating cosmos. Working in layers, Bopp builds his compositions to trigger self-reinforcing tendencies. What he creates he either embraces or abandons; some aspects of the painting are carved to reveal its history while others serve to host thinly sliced geodes which contain entire universes in themselves. Abstraction has always been a fickle subject. It is the representation of something that is without representation. The abstraction that Bopp represents is part catalyst who incites the chemistry of movement and part moderator whose hand guides the piece to become part of the conversation. This process is important as his works overwrite each other constantly, intermediate stages are being processed further, thus allowing the sovereignty of his works to stem from their own creation Bopp’s paintings are of the macro and the micro, they represent entire undiscovered universes outside and inside of us. This ambivalence is what drives the work: what’s within helps to discover the outer, space or self is up to the viewer. As we aspire to push our boundaries higher and higher, we can excite in the discoveries in his explorations. His paintings have been featured in gallery and museum shows throughout Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, South Korea, and the US and has been acquired by prominent private, corporate, and museum collections.