Mitte, Berlin
Brett Charles Seiler
Occasional Lovers
Eigen + ArtEigen + Art is pleased to present the current exhibition Occasional Lovers by Brett Charles Seiler. "Made with the reduced palette of bitumen black, roof-paint and chalk white, and raw canvas that has become Seiler’s signature style, the works are coloured with a muted nostalgia. Of his subjects, the artist speaks with tenderness of ‘my people’, listing a cast of friends and muses – Clemence, Felix, Prince, Bradley, Lukas, Adam, and Terence, among others – a Bouquet Of Boys, as one work is titled. There are two women, too, who bend the rule. The portraits seldom share a close resemblance to their sitters: they are not descriptions of individuals, Seiler says, but rather recollections of time spent together in the studio, embellished by memory and self-referential asides. His practice, he suggests, is predicated on a certain urgency: to forget no one, exclude nothing, to remember this place, these people, the feeling of it all..." —Lucienne Bestall, translation Hagen Hamm