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Instabile Zustände III: Was der Bruch freilegt, 2026
Christian Büffel  

Painting : mixed media · 40 x 30 x 4 cm 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch · Ready to hang

€590 590 €
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Painting : Unique artwork

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang

with stretcher frame

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40 x 30 x 4 cm 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

not every break is loud. Some leave a silence that reveals more than any outburst.

In What the Break Reveals, withdrawn color meets marked interruptions of the surface. Large break areas run through the calm composition. The material appears broken, displaced, and at the same time permeated by a subtle shimmer. Light meets resistance. The surface reveals something without fully disclosing it.

I am interested in the moment when an existing order loses its closure. What was previously hidden emerges. Not as a finished answer, but as a trace of an intervention. The break areas remain visible. They are neither concealed nor decoratively dissolved.

The shimmer sets a conscious contrast to this. It changes the perception of the surface without removing its vulnerability. Calm here does not mean intactness. It is a state in which the tension remains.


As the third work of the series.

Abstract

Abstract expressionism

Grey

Christian Büffel, Instabile Zustände III: Was der Bruch freilegt
Germany  • 1974

Presentation

I paint to make inner states visible.

My abstract paintings emerge from the tension between control and surrender, structure and disruption, order and chaos. Through gestural lines, intense color, layered surfaces and a physical approach to materials, I transform emotional processes into visual spaces.

My work is not based on a fixed image or a predetermined narrative. Instead, I am interested in the moment when something shifts — when a structure begins to break, when chaos develops its own order, or when an image seems to exist between two states.

Influenced by Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism, I combine spontaneous gestures with deliberate composition. Paint, traces, scratches, fragments and layers remain visible as evidence of the process. The surface becomes a record of movement, tension and change.

For me, abstraction is not an escape from reality. It is a way of making what is usually invisible perceptible.

I live and work in Germany.

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