Eckart Hahn: Papiertiger

The publication presents over 50 works by Eckart Hahn (*1971), ranging from the 1990s to the present day. The focus is on works in which the motif of paper is presented in surprising and diverse ways. In Hahn's paintings, paper always remains fiction: he uses brush and paint to create an astonishingly realistic effect. We encounter paper as torn, folded or wrapped, as a book, wallpaper, house of cards, cardboard stand-up display or origami. Hahn paints written, crumpled, cut, soiled paper, paper as collage, décollage, relief, layered or in implied destruction - always with great painterly precision and imagination.

Hahn's unmistakable “Broken Realism” combines precision with subtle humor and reveals the cracks and paradoxes of our reality. In scenes arranged like a stage, we encounter animals such as tigers, elephants, birds and wolves as carriers of multi-layered meanings. The paper itself becomes a symbol of fragility, change and the construction of reality.