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Galerie Karl Pfefferle: DAVID LYNCH "It Happened at Night" - 26 Oct 2012 to 22 Dec 2012 Current Exhibition |
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David Lynch, Box of Bees, 1988-1990
Watercolor on paper 25,4 x 17,8 cm, 10 x 7 inches |
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DAVID LYNCH "It Happened at Night" Recent Paintings and Drawings 26 October - 22 December 2012 Opening: Friday, 26 October 2012, 6 - 9 pm Art Weekend Munich 2012: Saturday, 27 October 11 am - 6 pm Sunday, 28 October 11 am - 6 pm Sunday, 28 October, 4 pm: Lecture: Prof. Werner Spies on David Lynch For the first time on view in Munich are large-scale matter paintings and recent drawings by American artist and filmmaker David Lynch (b. 1946). His most recent exhibition at the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl in 2010, the year in which Lynch also was awarded the „Kaiserring“ in Goslar for his artistic work, revealed the astounding coherence of his entire oeuvre. Lynch arrived at film through painting and the latter has accompanied his work since he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1960s. As Lynch explains: “Painting can make true statements about any aspects of life… The same is true of film. There are things that can’t be expressed in words. That’s what painting and filmmaking are about... Painting is like a thread running through everything else.” Mounted in heavy gold frames referencing Francis Bacon, Lynch‘s scenographic matter paintings become environments or stages where the artist’s passion for stories without endings and riddles without solutions unfolds. Fragments of words and sentences such as “I burn pinecone...” hint at disconcerting plots, yet never reveal their outcome. Lynch plays with shifts of scale, ignores the laws of perspective and juxtaposes things close and remote, thus assigning a hierarchy of scale to them. Time and again the viewer’s eye is attracted by a detail and the gaze locked in extreme close-up. In Lynch’s work an ant is as big as a house, while a distant memory – say, of a woman’s face – has the size of a matchbook. David Lynch‘s imagery always seems to obscure more than it exposes, which is the very reason for their overpowering appeal – an appeal often based on a mix of the sinister and the bizarre. As Werner Spies puts it: “We can never escape the incredibly sensitive, calculated preoccupation with the uncanny.” Galerie Karl Pfefferle Reichenbachstr. 47 – 49 80469 Munich Germany Fon +49.89.297 969 Fax +49.89.291 3571 [email protected] www.galeriekarlpfefferle.de gallery hours: Tue – Fri: 11 am – 6pm Sat: 11 am – 4pm and by appointment |
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