Neo Rauch's Melancholic Constructivism at Centre Pompidou

Neo Rauch's paintings, including 'Schöpfer', 'Eis', and 'Die Wahl', are described as allegories of inaction, depicting feverish activity that leads nowhere. His imaginary world rests on a precarious geometry, a fragile balance between shattered images, incongruous perspectives, and shreds of abstraction, evoking a constructivist fantasy. His work yields to melancholy but never to romanticism, suspended between a future that never happened and a past that immediately became obsolete. Rauch is participating in the exhibition 'Cher Peintre' at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, running until September 2, 2002.