David Claerbout's
paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations
of the physical act
of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations
of classical
paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale
gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed
Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands
of lines
of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil
paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze -
frame.
The visual stars
of the show are two large
gestural black
paintings, Black Orpheus and The Berlin Conference, created by pouring a hot mixture
of wax and black soap (a substance made from the ash
of West African plants) into a 2 - inch - deep
frame and clawing grooves into the material with a palette knife as it cools.
Gerhard Hoehme's Cimbalom from 1966, a picture box with strung
painted clotheslines, is
framed by two assemblages by Peter Roehr, which counter Hoehme's
gestural Art Informel «
painting» by insisting on the principle
of an anonymous serial order.