Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to announce “Abacus,” an upcoming solo exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Thomas Scheibitz in New York, on view from October 29 to December 18, 2020.
Over the past two decades, Thomas Scheibitz has developed his own conceptual language that bridges the realms of figuration and abstraction, at times dissolving them entirely. By using language and forms that suggest numerous meanings, Scheibitz challenges the viewer to consider multiple perspectives.
From an ancient counting device, a capital of a column in architecture, a software for banking systems, a research consortium, and a cult object, “Abacus” is a word with many different definitions and uses. Collecting his own glossary as a starting point, Scheibitz uses this vocabulary as a parallel to the forms in his painting and sculpture practice. Drawing from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular culture, Scheibitz deconstructs and recombines signs, images, shapes, and architectural fragments in ways that question traditional contexts and interpretations.
Born in 1968 in Radeberg, Germany, Scheibitz is currently based in Berlin. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Hochchschule für Bildende Künste Dresden) from 1991 to 1998, where he received an MFA under Professor Ralf Kerbach (1998).