Toni Mauersberg (b. Hannover, 1989; lives and works in Berlin) is interested in the different layers of a picture\u2019s signification: there is, in the first instance, what it depicts; then the larger tradition in which it is grounded; and finally, the conditions of its genesis. She employs a range of painterly strategies and techniques to uncover the potentials of paintings as a medium of understanding, insight, and storytelling. The question that animates her art is how it is possible, in this post-religious, post-rational, and post-individual age, to be one\u2019s own person. In her most recent series, Pas de Deux<\/em>, Mauersberg investigates the complex visual language of abstract painting, which originated in part in a quest for new ways of representing spirituality and emancipation. Combining nonrepresentational pictures with portraits, she draws attention to how both are products of \u201cmaking,\u201d composed of nothing but color, while enlarging their interpretative ambits. The dialogue between the paintings is meant to help the beholders chart their own course as they unlock what appear to be hidden laws encoded in pictures.<\/p>\n Toni Mauersberg studied Jewish studies at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin in 2008\u20132012 and fine arts with Leiko Ikemura at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009. In 2017, she was Michael M\u00fcller\u2019s master student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toni Mauersberg (b. Hannover, 1989; lives and works in Berlin) is interested in the different layers of a picture\u2019s signification: there is, in the first instance, what it depicts; then the larger tradition in which it is grounded; and finally, the conditions of its genesis. She employs a range of painterly strategies and techniques to uncover the potentials of paintings as a medium of understanding, insight, and storytelling. The question that animates her art is how it is possible, in this post-religious, post-rational, and post-individual age, to be one\u2019s own person. In her most recent series, Pas de Deux<\/em>, Mauersberg investigates the complex visual language of abstract painting, which originated in part in a quest for new ways of representing spirituality and emancipation. Combining nonrepresentational pictures with portraits, she draws attention to how both are products of \u201cmaking,\u201d composed of nothing but color, while enlarging their interpretative ambits. The dialogue between the paintings is meant to help the beholders chart their own course as they unlock what appear to be hidden laws encoded in pictures.<\/p>\n Toni Mauersberg studied Jewish studies at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin in 2008\u20132012 and fine arts with Leiko Ikemura at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009. In 2017, she was Michael M\u00fcller\u2019s master student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20785,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2213],"product_tag":[3960,3959],"class_list":{"0":"post-20794","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-painting","8":"product_tag-entre-nous-en","9":"product_tag-toni-mauersberg-en","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n