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16 September 2005
 Eberhard Havekost
Exhibition "Prints and Paintings 1996-2005" opens at the Embassy Residence Gallery 15 September 2005
A private view, hosted by Ambassador Thomas Matussek and Mrs. Ursula Matussek marked the opening of the new exhibition in the Gallery of the Residence of
the German Ambassador on Thursday 15 September 2005, "Prints and Paintings 1996-2005" by the Dresden artist Eberhard Havekost. Mrs. Ursula Matussek thanked the curator, Dr. Peter
Plaßmeyer, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden in her address for lending the works to the Gallery for three weeks. 
Eberhard Havekost is a young artist from Dresden, who is rapidly gaining an international reputation. The exhibition features a wide range of works, including three large paintings entitled
"The Saxon Switzerland" and several series of prints.
Eberhard Havekost (born 1967 in Dresden) is one of Saxony's best known young painters whose clinically cool works inspired by modern media have earned him an international reputation.
The current exhibition in London of his prints and paintings  includes works from the Dresden State
Art Collection as well as three large-scale views of the sandstone hills along the River Elbe from the collection of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden.
Havekost's particular interest in an age of rapid dissemination of images, is the interaction between mass-media perceptions and traditional painting. As well as portraits and landscapes,
architecture and transport are major themes in his work. Through often complex computer processes, the artist uses existing images from electronic and printed media, as the basis for his extensive
painting and graphic cycles.
 "Eberhard Havekost's artistic
style is, as it were, paradigmatic for the existential relationship between authenticity and anonymity, between one-off originals and serial reproduction or between the classic concept of art and
education and the increasing impact of art on our lives. The productive balance maintained by Havekost between uniqueness and contemporary style has
distinguished all artists of note since the time of Giotto right up to Picasso, Beuys and Gerhard
Richter." text from: Martin Roth, Wolfgang Holler: Introduction to Eberhard Havekost, Graphic Arts 1999-2004
 Ralf Lehmann (left) owner of the
"Gebrüder Lehmann" Gallery in Dresden, with Frau Matussek and Dr Peter Plassmeyer.
 Vera Schumacher Fine Art
representative of G. Kissel
(left), and artist Julie Held.
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