Manche Bonbon bleiben in den Augen kleben
Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe•Aug 09, 2025 — Aug 17, 2025
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The title of the Exhibition (translation: Some Sweets Stick to the Eyes) refers to an experience oscillating between perception, memory, and effect. Here, color appears not merely as a visual phenomenon, but as a carrier of impressions that take hold. For color perception is shaped not only by light and surface, but also by stored images and emotional responses—it is always also memory. The metaphor of the sticky candy points to this lingering: to color combinations and surface stimuli that cling to the gaze and leave traces beyond seeing. Thus, our sense of color is embedded in a feedback loop in which perception, memory, and imagination repeatedly intermingle.
“Manche Bonbons bleiben in den Augen kleben” brings together a selection of works by Changxiao Wang from recent years, exploring what images trigger in the eye and in memory.
Observation precedes the act of painting, when something catches the artist’s eye—often something ordinary, often incidental....More
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Manche Bonbon bleiben in den Augen kleben
Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe•Aug 09, 2025 — Aug 17, 2025
Press Release
The title of the Exhibition (translation: Some Sweets Stick to the Eyes) refers to an experience oscillating between perception, memory, and effect. Here, color appears not merely as a visual phenomenon, but as a carrier of impressions that take hold. For color perception is shaped not only by light and surface, but also by stored images and emotional responses—it is always also memory. The metaphor of the sticky candy points to this lingering: to color combinations and surface stimuli that cling to the gaze and leave traces beyond seeing. Thus, our sense of color is embedded in a feedback loop in which perception, memory, and imagination repeatedly intermingle.
“Manche Bonbons bleiben in den Augen kleben” brings together a selection of works by Changxiao Wang from recent years, exploring what images trigger in the eye and in memory.
Observation precedes the act of painting, when something catches the artist’s eye—often something ordinary, often incidental....More
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