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From Gloom to Night
Text by Wolfgang Ullrich

For several years, night has fallen in Armin Boehm's paintings. The sun, albeit fading, was still shining around 2015, and images revealed themselves in the twilight. Since 2018, his skies have become even darker. Stars or the moon appear at times, but light comes almost exclusively from artificial sources: from lamps, neon signs, searchlights. It looks garish as if to capture a street or an interior being illuminated after an accident or a crime. Boehm’s light heightens the eeriness of the night.

Night paintings are a long-standing tradition in …