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Roberts Projects is pleased to present a survey of paintings from 1998 to 2015 by the German artist Eberhard Havekost, whose work explored the parallels between the systemic ideas of perfection and the modes of ideal image construction.

Working from his own collection of photos and video footage, Havekost altered the original images on a computer: hues were subtly shifted, forms imperceptibly stretched and skewed. These modifications became further translated through Havekost’s manual process of painting. The final image did not reflect a photographic precision, but rather a series of …