presents Teufelstal, a text written by Erik Lavesson on the occasion of Adrian Olas' exhibition at the gallery.
Erik Lavesson
@buenavistaplumbing
Graphic design by Janis Gildein
@janisgildein
Adrian Olas:
Including Caspar David Friedrich
20/11/2025–24/01/2026
@adrianolas
presents
Adrian Olas: Including Caspar David Friedrich
20/11/2025–24/01/2026
ISSUES is happy to present Adrian Olas’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show brings together monochrome paintings of street-stand flowers and black-and-white aerial photographs of miniature houses. Using the mobile phone camera, a perfectly standard yet highly personal tool of recording imagery, Olas gathers impressions of his surroundings that unfold through various layers of forgery: adaptations of photographic, digital-comic, and painterly imagery.
In a coy mise-en-scène of the ostensibly hobbyist reproduction of the artist’s surroundings, notions of authenticity and imitation intertwine. By utilising as well as depicting products that promise individuality through standardised design, model-making and the play of scale weave a subtle dialogue between sincerity and simulation, reflecting the tension between personal expression and mass production.
The cycle of image transformations concludes with the promised inclusion of Caspar David Friedrich: an explicit forgery painted on a Euro-Shop canvas in the artist’s kitchen. These are reproductions of his adopted home country, a plastic Heimat.
From left:
Blume 2000 II
Oil on canvas in artist's frame
185 × 145 cm
Der Kunstrasen
Hobby grass and vinyl paint on canvas
18 × 24 cm
Das Geflecht
Oil on canvas in artist's frame
190 × 150 cm
@adrianolas
Let me tell you about my dreams , rose, rose, rose, rose -oil on floor panel, stained fir boiserie.
From the group show half hearted, whole hearted @heerz_tooya with @behin_ftw@turbomigge@inezjnsn@josefruona
Was a fun show!
📸 from the release of the first issue of Luxemburg.
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Luxemburg is a quarterly-ish magazine published by Luxemburg press. Dedicated to mirroring contemporary society the magazine in various ways advances the thesis that the kingdom of Sweden is in fact the kingdom of Luxembourg.
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Thx for coming, the magazine is available through www.luxemburgpress.eu 🥂
