JUBG

Matthias Schaufler

Info: In the latest batch of paintings exhibited with JUBG in Brussels – on view from April 24, 2026 – Schaufler reveals the bedside table drawer where he keeps the keys to his memoirs. The works on display, in total seven oils on canvas and a drawing, contain previously unseen, and slightly disguised references to the artist‘s life, to the studies he carried over the past forty years, which gradually condensed into a corpus of surprising quality and unmistakable style. Among the medium-format works present in the exhibition, some have interacted with others rhythmically, since the compositional phases, providing sparks and flashes within the group. The lime green tights in Ludwig (2026) trace the lines of a decadent eroticism that has existed in Schaufler‘s painting since 2006 – formally linked to his investigations on the figura, which still don’t seem to have reached the end of the day. An overflowing breast and the arched eyebrows in Louise with Rosie (2026) evoke and conceal references to the utter gracefulness of the nieces of Jules Mazarine – and to the anti-Sadian imagery that affects them, since they were the most fortunate and free-spirited girls of eighteenth-century Europe. Aristocratic and triumphant heroines, to this date exiled from the short-sighted legacy of feminist narratives. (…) – Francesca Lacatena. (…) Viewing times: Friday, April 24, 5–9 pm / Saturday, April 25, 12–6 pm / Friday, April 29, 12–6 pm / Location: Av. Charles Quint 293, 1083 Brussels, Belgium.