The title of the show is a reference to the uncertain and ever changing times we are currently living in.
The new series of paintings by Paloma are inspired by his move from Los Angeles to a small wine producing village called Alzenau in the northern Bavarian part of Germany. The title of the show is a reference to the uncertain and ever changing times we are currently living in. From Covid, to unusual weather, to ever changing rules as to how society is “allowed” to function. Using the village as the backdrop to discuss a far more reaching view point of how the artist sees the world that becomes a semi autobiographical jumping point that allows the artist to turn inward in order to deal with what he sees happening around us no matter where we live. The village itself was founded in the 1300s and has been in a slow degradation ever since, even though it’s a very upscale and wealthy village where many bankers from Frankfurt are desperate to buy houses in.
The exhibition, which features the artist's series of duo colored paintings, blurs the line between abstraction and formalism. In some of the paintings we can see references to hills and mounds, degrading hills and mounds that represent infrastructure and what we find in these hills or mounds can be an excavation of society once found there. The use of just two colors brings to mind an Ominous, Slow, Burn of the unknown and subconscious mind finding itself treading through a metaphorical forest. There’s also a humorous aspect to these paintings if one has a keen eye. A funny yet poignant reference of using the village to represent a larger picture is a bit of an oxymoron and absurd. Paloma uses this absurdity to portray the figurative components in his paintings by casting the formal characters in a quasi cartoonish manner.
