This exhibition centers on the human figure and the way it is evoked and deconstructed in contemporary painting. Five artists with different backgrounds present works that imagine and (de-)form the human figure, or present otherwise allusions to the body.
The exhibition lends it title from Willem de Kooning, who pointed to short moments of insight -flashes of truth- that can occur while looking at a painting. The figuration in de Kooning’s work is not something that can be pinned down as an objective fact, rather it resides and is hidden in painterly gestures, color marks and abstraction.
Read moreIt comes and goes, is part of the dynamics of perception. This quality can be found in the work of the five participating artists in the exhibition. They acknowledge that the complexity of life cannot be grabbed in a single image of a figure, yet it can be evoked in flashes of insight while looking at painting.
The presented painters show different temperaments, coming from backgrounds across Europe and the US. Yet each of their work harbors a dynamic quality, and an understanding of the paradoxical relationship between painting as a static object on the wall, and reality as being in permanent flux. They do not present the human figure in singularity, but in fragments, suggestive, in flowing relationships, in moments of appearance, in gestures, in deformation. Together the artists show a cross section of contemporary painting in which figuration and abstraction cannot be separated.
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CRITICS’ PICKS: Content is a Glimpse
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Tagesspiegel – Christiane Meixner
Anna Tuori
Thanks, Very Fine
Oil and acrylic on board
116 x 110 cm
2018
Anna Tuori
Breath Disturbed
Oil and acrylic on board
116 x 110 cm
2018
Anna Tuori
Prerequisite Number of Oohs and Aahs (trying to behave)
Oil and acrylic on board
150 x 130 cm
2018
Anna Tuori and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Anna Tuori and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains
Acryl and oil on canvas
184.5 x 164.5 x 5.5 cm
2016
Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz, David Schutter
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Fiona Rae and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Jorge Queiroz and David Schutter
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains #1
Acryl and oil on canvas
180 x 160 cm
2016
David Schutter
AIC G 219
Oil on canvas
41 x 37.8 x 2 cm
2014
Jorge Queiroz and David Schutter
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Anna Tuori, Jorge Queiroz, David Schutter,
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Mark Lammert
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Fiona Rae
Content is a glimpse
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Fiona Rae
Faerie gives delight and hurts not
Oil on canvas
183 x 129.5 cm
2017
Fiona Rae
Figure 1l
Oil on canvas
183 x 129.5 cm
2014
Mark Lammert, Fiona Rae
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Anna Tuori and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Anna Tuori and Jorge Queiroz
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Jorge Queiroz and Mark Lammert
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
David Schutter and Mark Lammert
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
David Schutter
GSMB W 21
Oil on canvas
36.8 x 48.2 x 3.5 cm
2015
Anna Tuori, Mark Lammert, David Schutter
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
David Schutter and Mark Lammert
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Jorge Queiroz
Different Trains
Acrylic and oil on canvas
184.5 x 164.5 x 5.5 cm
2017
Mark Lammert, Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz, David Schutter
Content is a glimpse
Installation view
Mark Lammert
Weiß
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm each
2001–2003
Content is a glimpse
Installation view