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Jochen Mühlenbrink — WTP
Jochen Mühlenbrink

WTP

2025

WTP presents a masterwork of contemporary trompe l'oeil, depicting crumpled golden wrapping paper and tape rendered with illusionistic precision against a dramatically gradated background that shifts from cool purples to warm burnt oranges. A smiley face, sketched in pale yellows and whites, floats above the material, creating an unsettling juxtaposition between gesture and object, human expression and lifeless refuse. The composition leverages the artist's signature exploration of surface illusion and tactile materiality, inviting viewers to question the boundary between representation and reality. Mühlenbrink's practice extends the legacy of photorealistic painting into the conceptual realm, transforming mundane packaging materials into vehicles for meditation on perception, value, and the act of looking itself.

Medium
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Overall

Notes

Cuturi Gallery, Singapore. Works are located in Singapore; price exclusive of taxes. Inventory ref: INV-0326.

For Sale — €4900

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Jochen Mühlenbrink, WTP, 2025

WTP presents a masterwork of contemporary trompe l'oeil, depicting crumpled golden wrapping paper and tape rendered with illusionistic precision against a dramatically gradated background that shifts from cool purples to warm burnt oranges. A smiley face, sketched in pale yellows and whites, floats above the material, creating an unsettling juxtaposition between gesture and object, human expression and lifeless refuse. The composition leverages the artist's signature exploration of surface illusion and tactile materiality, inviting viewers to question the boundary between representation and reality. Mühlenbrink's practice extends the legacy of photorealistic painting into the conceptual realm, transforming mundane packaging materials into vehicles for meditation on perception, value, and the act of looking itself.

Medium
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 50 x 40 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
Cuturi Gallery, Singapore

Related themes

German Artist, Living Artist, Oil Acrylic, Material Illusion, Conceptual Art, Mid Career, Photorealism, Surface Play, Canvas, Wrapping Paper, Post-Pop, Gesture Drawing, Perceptual Art, Color Gradient, Contemporary Painting, Optical Illusion, Trompe-l'oeil, Hyperrealism, Still Life, Packaging Art

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Alex Capecelatro