Expressionist paintings rooted in thirty years in the Caucasus. Horses, soldiers, steppe, borderlands — the recurring motifs of a landscape that carries history on its surface. Large-format acrylics and oils on canvas, painted in Tbilisi.
Heiner Buhr has spent three decades travelling the furthest corners of the Caucasus — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and deep into the North Caucasus and Dagestan, regions most travellers never reach. As founder of Kaukasus-Reisen, he has led expeditions into landscapes that few outsiders ever reach. The archaic visual world of the region — its riders, its mountains, its borderlands — has never left his painting.
Rooted in the German Expressionist tradition of Berlin and Dresden, and shaped by the conceptual thinking of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, his work moves between raw gesture and deliberate structure. The Caucasus provides the motifs. The rest comes from thirty years of looking.
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