The art of Cologne based painter Armin Scheid is just as versatile as it is stringent on the other hand:

The intensive study of the possibilities of painting is reflected in a complex body of work, which could be quite assigned at first glance to different artists. At second glance it is embraced by profound similarities - such as the intensive study and exploration of contrast-effects, the love for oversaturated colours, the rhythmical and almost ornamental use of brushstrokes as well as the dynamic and polycentric understanding of creating paintings.​

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The beholders self-assurance concerning

the definition of space, planimetrics and physicality is irritated repeatedly. Things seem to resolve sometimes and yet are firmly bound in a rhythmic interplay of color-, brightness- and movement-contrasts.

 

The viewer is not just witness, but involved in this rhythmical game and "illuminated" by the vibrant power of colours.

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In the last 15 years Armin Scheid evolved a specific fragmented, almost particularized artistic language: Giving us a feeling of indifference between vulnerability and empowerment and therefor building a spectrum of possibilities in which we have to get along as human beings. It´s nothing less than a mirror, a colorful and energetic analogy to human condition itself!

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Recently Armin Scheid is working on space specific room installations combining his diverse series´ into an immersive painters universe - playfully irritating perspectives and space consciousness.