Oasis is the latest in a series of ambitious installations by Henning which propose a radical revision of the boundaries which we position around the work of art, and which complicate the way that we view and experience paintings. Whilst Henning's paintings disrupt the traditional hierarchies of genre, the display strategies he has developed demonstrate a critical and subversive wit.

MASTERdote / antiSINGER is a major exhibition by German artist Anton Henning at Haunch of Venison, London (May - July 2010). Featuring more than 80 works, including painting and sculpture, furniture and drawing, video, and a site specific stained glass window, the exhibition considers Henning's oeuvre as a series of interrelated riddles, precariously positioned between irony and grandeur. The title of the show is a compelling collage of Richard Wagner's opera about art and creativity, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and 'antidote', the medical term for an agent that counteracts a poison. The work itself, and the enigmatic way it is presented, reveals both the absurdist and traditional vein of the artist's humorous and self-aware art, from the seemingly sober to the dazzling and whimsical. Henning is anti-unconventional in his examination and use of traditional (conventional) art genres from portrait, landscape, nude and still life."