Abetz & Drercher

by Tereza de Arruda

The psychedelic paintings of the artist duo Abetz & Drescher (Maike Abetz, b. 1970 in Düsseldorf and Oliver Drescher, b. 1969 in Essen) play with the longings of a generation that reinvented itself through the mass cultural transformation of music and media in the 1960s. Thus, Katharina Sieverding?s former master students bring primarily American icons from the 1960s era of rock ?n? roll and youth protest culture to the canvas. In their collaborative works, Abetz & Drescher repeatedly penetrate the genres of self-portrait and icon painting, mixing epochs from the Renaissance to pop art: the...