LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents the first UK solo exhibition by Friedrich Kunath. Encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, video and photography, Kunath’s work focuses on universal themes of the human condition: love, loss, loneliness, optimism and dejection, all imparted with a tragicomic pathos. Kunath’s work draws inspiration from sources such as song titles, lyrics and books, along with art historical influences, including Conceptual art, German Romanticism and Symbolism. His paintings, which freely bestride the idioms of abstraction and representation, are saturated with washes of colour, which are then overlaid with diverse visual references, from satirical cartoons, doodles and chocolate-box imagery to passages of text with nuanced word-play. ‘All the sleeves are brown and the tie is grey (California Dreaming)’ (2011) features a sleeping figure sat aboard a ramshackle raft, caught up in a ferocious sea; w