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Mario Lobedan
Paintings & Drawings, 2008 - 2022
10 Oct – 11 Nov
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Mario Lobedan was born in Magdeburg, East Germany in 1961. After National Service he studied librarianship in Leipzig before taking up painting in his early twenties, working alone and eventually winning a place at the Leipzig Academy in 1989. After the formal, classical training of the Academy, the next ten years saw Lobedan’s painting evolving towards abstraction. This exhibition, the first to be held outside Germany, follows the development of the artist’s work from that moment with a survey of paintings and drawings made over the last fifteen years.
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‘Sometimes I flatter the images, and sometimes I punch him in the face ... and most of the time they hit back! ... I have lost good paintings: I did not see that I had reached the final state. I got furious and stupid and went and lost it, then I have to build it again.’.
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‘All the paintings have all emotions, even despair. My best paintings are like angry old men, not very polite, a bit stupid...wounded and wasted old men, but still standing!’.
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"It was completely different for me - total seclusion without any guidance. There was not a single beginner's mistake I didn't make... It was a difficult, agonising start, but I came through it stronger and more true to myself."
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“His drawings were indivisible from his work on canvas … the same massive collisions of marks and textures, the same glimpses of light beyond the surface. They bristled with static energy: combustible as they were spontaneous, emotional and raw, yet never out of control.”
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![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [18–XV], 2018](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/85befcfdffd649047e01195d2506eabbj/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-18-xv-2018.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled {16–L], 2016](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/360b6e0fc96e34aa9f507196b4e11755j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-16-l-2016.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [08-LVI], 2008](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/fb10fbcab2b10da895f4391fd89e3846j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-08-lvi-2008.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [18–XLIV], 2018](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/77383bc36810247fe0b1d04a7cebda63j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-18-xliv-2018.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [09–LX], 2009](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/8e3d23550b47b2a65faaf05c6e66f8c4j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-09-lx-2009.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled {12–LIV], 2012](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/46aeb54d035f68bac277135236f0075aj/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-12-liv-2012.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [15–XLXX], 2015](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/4d266ac6cb544a95da8717f0c237cce2j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-15-xlxx-2015.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [16–LXIV], 2016](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/605cf72de99b7b5ff87545a0703cfe09j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-16-lxiv-2016.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [17–LXV], 2017](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/1d17fdcbc5d9a0c1778bb2fb6744b7d8j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-17-lxv-2017.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [15–LXXIII], 2015](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/3660768a54b82c5fd133565ca0a92e1ej/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-15-lxxiii-2015.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [16–LXII], 2016](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/437d2132c68ed150544eb62499bed7c1j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-16-lxii-2016.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [22–LXXI], 2022](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/d407f20319fa54e7473dad017721c8fcj/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-22-lxxi-2022.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [22-LXIX], 2022](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/c930c754e8c8db7f9c236554b047432dj/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-22-lxix-2022.jpg)
![Mario Lobedan, Untitled [15-LV], 2015](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/jmgallery/images/view/280af589daa3de3fead1b7c01a7d7a22j/johnmartingallery-mario-lobedan-untitled-15-lv-2015.jpg)