Paul Wesenberg I Found New Paradise

For his third solo show at Galerie RX&SLAG Paris, Berlin artist Paul Wesenberg presents a new body of work entitled Found New Paradise. This exhibition follows on from Half Past Paradise, presented in 2024 at SLAG&RX in New York. These two exhibitions share a common poetic source of inspiration: Water from Another Source, a poem by Barry Schwabsky, also an influential art critic, which acts as a discreet thread running through the artist's recent work.

For P. Wesenberg, the notion of “paradise” is one of the oldest and most universal archetypes in the cultural history of humanity. It transcends eras, beliefs and civilisations, embodying in turn the promise of an afterlife, nostalgia for a golden age or the aspiration to a state of inner peace. The artist translates this collective memory of paradise into painting, in a plastic language that is both sensory and enigmatic, made up of visual fragments, luminous intuitions and superimposed materials.