Konstantin Déry | Tote Eiche | 2015 | Öl auf Leinwand

The artist couple Alice Stepanek (born 1954 in Berlin) & Steven Maslin (born 1959 in London) form an unusual union: They invariably work together on their often large-format paintings. Their photographic, hyper-realistic style of painting is broken up by disturbing alienation effects, which convey a blurry and uncanny impression of the depicted landscapes.

Konstantin Déry (born 1976 in Budapest), too, remains true to representationalism in his impressively detailed works and never changes to abstraction. However, he develops a very distinct color structure for his subjects and thus goes far beyond the realistic depiction of nature.