OSKAR FELBER “FAUX FLAGS”
Opening: 25 February, 7 PM
26.02. - 14.03. 2026
VUNU Košice
Oskar Felber’s solo exhibition Faux Flags presents a series of paintings that visually evoke torn flags. With this project, the artist extends his longstanding practice with color fields, this time contextualizing and conceptualizing them as non-existent flags. The fact that flags are usually realized in fabric is here transposed through paint into the picture plane.
Oskar Felber
(b. 1992) belongs to a younger generation of painters primarily engaged in the development of contemporary abstract practice. In earlier works, his visual language drew extensively from the obscure fringes of popular culture and from the aesthetics of trash culture, horror imagery, and tattoo art. More recently, his practice has shifted toward a conceptually reduced non-figurative field, propelled by emotion, gesture, and chromatic expression.
Rapid painterly inscriptions, impasto layering, and an almost obsessive reworking of the canvas move fluidly from monochromatic compositions to dissonant color palettes, resulting in raw and highly expressive moments defined by textured surfaces and material presence. His ongoing pursuit of form and compositional balance currently manifests in a geometrically inflected mode of painting that nevertheless retains the dynamic and instinctive visual language characteristic of his earlier series.
The works deliberately draw from the forms and color arrangements of various flags from around the world, yet their individual parts appear to be stitched back together at random, either without knowledge of the original design or with the deliberate intention of avoiding its reproduction and original meaning. This intervention into the traditional symbolism of flags opens questions around the concept of nation states and the transformation of historical narratives.
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