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Galerie Max Hetzler: RICHARD PHILLIPS | ROBERT HOLYHEAD - 2 May 2014 to 7 June 2014 Current Exhibition |
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Richard Phillips, Flower Mirror, 2013
oil on canvas, 232,4 x 152,4 cm � 2013 Richard Phillips |
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Richard Phillips Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg May 2 – June 7, 2014 Opening: May 2, 6-9 pm We are delighted to inaugurate an exhibition with new paintings by Richard Phillips during the Gallery Weekend Berlin, which will be on view from May 2 until June 7, 2014 in Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Richard Phillips' work is reflecting mass media, image production and its role in today's society in a critical way. In his examination of imagery and forms of display questions arise of how media and propaganda techniques can shape, distort and invert the meaning of images. Phillips uses a variety of different sources and besides images of pop and trash icons he utilises portraits of politicians and elements taken from the news as well as advertisements. They show the inexhaustible diversity of the current media image archive and the longing for increasing visualisation of the world. Transferred into the medium of painting, a medium that is almost de facto guaranteed as art, Phillips revalues the images, extends their context and at the same time questions their relevance. The exhibition displays a group of paintings which show the Romanian top model Catrinel Menghia posing with Pop Art classics as well as works by contemporary artists as Jeff Koons. Only half-dressed and in provocative poses the paintings present Menghia in front of - sometimes also interacting with – works of Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton or Robert Indiana, among others. Flower Mirror, 2013, depicts Menghia in front of a work by Jeff Koons which is in turn reflecting both Menghia and a light installation by the artist Leo Villareal in the background. Love, 2014, shows the model stretching out on the letters of the word Love, referring to Robert Indiana's famous work from 1966. In Slip It To Me, 2014, the lascivious posture emphasizes the sexual connotation of the sentence Slip It To Me that can be seen on the work Epiphany, 1964, by Richard Hamilton. Inspired by a photo shoot which has taken place at the art collection of fashion designer Lisa Perry that includes all depicted works, Phillips explores art's interdependency with fashion and luxury display. There is an obvious affinity to advertisement, but also Pin-Up and Playboy aesthetics that lead back to the initial inspirations of Pop Art. Furthermore, the paintings illustrate the correlation of beauty, desire and sexuality with power and money and thus continue Phillips' approach of previous series. Previously, his paintings were known for a smooth and even surface that almost wouldn't reveal its painterly origin. In his new series, for the first time they have a visible texture. Phillips doesn't veil the brushstrokes anymore to give an ultra-photographic appearance to the depicted, but works with the plasticity and structure of the applied colour. Thus, these works develop an unusual spatiality and at the same time emphasise their production process. Simultaneously the gallery will be presenting an exhibition of works by Robert Holyhead in Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin-Charlottenburg. This is the first solo exhibition of Robert Holyhead with Galerie Max Hetzler. Furthermore, we are happy to announce the inauguration of a new space in Paris, opening May 17, 2014 with a solo show of new paintings by Albert Oehlen. Richard Phillips, born 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, lives and works in New York. This is his fourth solo exhibition with Galerie Max Hetzler. Phillips' work was presented in several solo shows in institutions, such as Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2014); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth (2011); Swiss Institute, New York (2010); Le Consortium, Dijon (2004); Kunstverein Hamburg (2002) and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2000). Furthermore, Richard Phillips formed part of important group exhibitions at international institutions, such as Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (2012); Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (2008); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (2006); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2004) as well as Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2003). Robert Holyhead Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin-Charlottenburg May 2 – June 7, 2014 Opening: May 2, 6-9 pm We are delighted to inaugurate a solo exhibition with works by Robert Holyhead during the Gallery Weekend Berlin, which will be on view from May 2 until June 7, 2014 in Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin-Charlottenburg. At first sight Holyhead's work appears intimate and contemplative. No ultimate conclusion can be defined. Seemingly unfinished fragments of colour are revealed through broken or half finished grids and geometric shapes. Deconstruction comes to mind as paint, with a precise viscosity, might move on the surface, being isolated in a washed colour. Edges perform a specific role with incredible precision in the pristine appearance of the paintings and a certain fluidity emerges between one form and the sharpness of another. »I'm trying to bring in this thing called painting rather than this thing called abstraction. […] I need to see the work as an inquiry into painting. There is a fine line between precision and hindering the painting. I am trying to show the little glitches or punctuations which aren't gratuitous in any sense but which aren't so restrained. […] I am trying to present something familiar that is full of un-familiarity, maybe something like adopting a new language. Viewers may already recognize something outside of the paintings, something based on the outside world, on a skewed geometry, for example. [...] My work doesn't have any particular reference points outside of itself, yet external influences creep in as I make it. As such, my painting presents both a type of personal language and some familiarity with the world.« Robert Holyhead, London, July 2010 in Robert Holyhead, Karsten Schubert and Ridinghouse, 2010 The exhibition presents a new group of oil paintings which continue Holyhead's involvement with contemporary forms of abstract painting. The small sized, unicoloured works build an immediate dialogue among each other and provide space for questions of colour, shape, balance and disorder. By leaving parts uncovered or even wiping the paint off the canvas, the artist develops a complex arrangement of white shapes and forms within the coloured surface. Thus, every single composition becomes a continuous interaction between the seen and the withheld, a balance between negative and positive spaces. Holyhead often plays with the intensity of the applied colour and together with strongly visible brush marks they determine the structure of the canvas and give the works a certain dynamic. Especially in paintings as Untitled (Held), 2014, or Untitled (Eye), 2014, this dynamic turns into an intense movement, evoking images of swirls or waterfalls. This is the first solo exhibition of Robert Holyhead with Galerie Max Hetzler. Simultaneously the gallery will be presenting an exhibition of new works by Richard Phillips in Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Furthermore, we are happy to announce the inauguration of a new space in Paris, starting on May 17, 2014 with a solo show by Albert Oehlen. Robert Holyhead, born 1974 in Trowbridge, lives and works in London. His work was presented in several solo and group exhibitions, for example at Karsten Schubert, London (2012, 2010 and 2009); at PEER, London (2012); at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; at the Ulster Museum, Belfast; at the Tate Britain, London, (2012) and at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009). His work features in the permanent collections of Institutions such as The Arts Council (London) and the Tate Gallery (London). |
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