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Romer Young Gallery is pleased to present Transparent Trees, its fifth solo exhibition with German artist Christoph Roßner. Roßner's work is firmly rooted in the ethos of the Leipzig School of painting which is often regarded as breathing “new life into the East German tradition of social realist figure painting with enigmatic narratives and surrealist overtones.” Like the artists of the Leipzig School, Roßner shares a “technical skill, a devotion to figurative art, and a predilection for dry-eyed melancholy subject matter.” A strange surrealism and a discordant palette pervade his …