Criticism

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Broadway Gallery NYC, 2011

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Jochen shambeck's application of paint is done by vigorous throwing, hand painting, or by placing the tubes directly on a monochromatic painted surface. Through these methods, the splashes, beads, and meandering droplets release boundless energy like a firework explosion. His artistic intention is not to create an imitation of reality or a window into a copy of it.

The flower is not the subject, but the force, the energy, the matter and the color.

Jochen Shambeck's works are very striking. The physical surface is fresh, the material properties of the paint are explored, and you are surprised by the unexpectedly bright colors. The brashness borders on the grotesque, but Shambeck mixes beautiful colors applied in an experimental way. By applying shambec cake on top of paint in any direction, the end result feels like an explosion. These works are bold, in your face, and boldly modern. Broadway Gallery NYC, 2011

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Jochen Schambeck uses a variety of techniques to layer paint on a wooden base. He creates his works by throwing paint or using his hands to paint or apply oil paint to the base. In his works, Schambeck's contribution to the final result is minimal, as he paints or molds the material with his hands. He gives the paint a body and lets it grow. The colors in his works seem to have been born to live a free life, with no other purpose than to add an impressive sensibility to his own aesthetic. Reinhold Weinmann, Galerie Grandel Mannheim, 2013

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Schambeck ignores conventions such as the limits of genre with his quasi-multidimensional
"object images" to create his, quite literally, "poly-material" art. It is the ultimate result of an expressive, or even performance-based, use of painting
"material". Schambeck thereby negates the boundaries between painting, construction,
sculpting and carving in the same way that he eludes the viewers attempts to categorize hiswork. The emancipation of the image space, area and color are, along with their emotional,
evocative and physical qualities, the real subject of his works. The vitality, opulence and intensity of the oil paint form the humus for the powerfully compressed compositions that address the very sensual fullness of life: the transitory appearance of vegetable or foral arrangements brings the subjective out from behind the visible.
Dr. Annette Ludwig, Gutenbergmuseum Mainz, 2015

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"The audience rarely experiences such an intense glow of color, and the effect is enhanced by the magnificent glow of the oil paintings." (Regina M. Fisher, curator)

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"Adaptive palettes and Amazon glass can be applied precisely to the color layers of Chambek's paintings. They have these stimulating exotic features."

(Professor Klaus Galwitz)

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"Original Color Festival is celebrated here. Colors are not used as a means of expression, but instead become a theme." (Dr. Ulique Lehmann)

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"Shambeck's painting can also be combined with the idea that oil is currently engulfed in the flames of a strongly burning painting." (Professor Hans Gerke)

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Shambek's art is unique. His expression and way of working form a complex structure. Surely you won't find an artist who draws like Chambek. His 'emotional painting' is almost indivisible from his personality."

(Dr. Ulrike Lehmann)

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Jochen Schambeck's artistic intention is not to imitate reality, but to create a new reality in the artistic process. His subjects are not flowers, but power, energy, matter, and color. (Judice Bader, City Gallery Trounstein)

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"In order for thoughts to appear in the world, you have to draw an image of similarity" (Len Magritte). On the contrary, artistic ambiguity is revealed by viewers' recognition of this similarity. And that's exactly the paradox reflected in Johanne Chambek's work. (Adolph H. Kerhoff)

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