Stanley Whitney / Andreas Reiter Raabe
dal 10/9/2003 al 31/10/2003
Segnalato da
10/9/2003
Stanley Whitney / Andreas Reiter Raabe
Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien
Once again, the new season will focus on one of the gallery's favorite themes  dealing with aspects of contemporary art  and will include ideas on the process of creating and devising paintings, on distinct individual methods of color application, as well as on unihibited contact to the entire color spectrum.
Once again, the new season will focus on one of the gallery's favorite
themes  dealing with aspects of contemporary art  and will include ideas
on the process of creating and devising paintings, on distinct individual
methods of color application, as well as on unihibited contact to the entire
color spectrum.
STANLEY WHITNEY
was born in Philadelphia in 1946, lives and works in New York and Rome.
Attended courses at Yale University, at Kansas City Art Institute and at
Columbus College in Ohio. Numerous exhibits since the 70s, including the
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum Harlem, Jack Tilton
Gallery New York, Magazzino d´Arte Moderna Rome, Zerynthia Rome. We first
displayed Whitney's art in the exhibit Quiet As It's Kept curated by David
Hammons in 2002. A catalogue with texts by Geoffrey Jacques and Raphael
Rubinstein was published by the gallery for both exhibits.
The structure of the paintings by Stanley Whitney is radical through its
simplicity: rectangular blocks of color are layered on top of oneanother in
rows and separated by horizontal ribbons of color. This structure purely
serves the purpose of painting, yet at the same time representing
communication on a metabolical level. Whitney's art is sumptuous and
laconic, its efficiency strangely correlates to the city in which he lives:
New York. Not mistakenly, the arrangement and the effect of the many color
applications in various shades of green, orange, red, blue, etc. have been
compared to the rhythm of jazz, a visual polyrhythm.
ANDREAS REITER RAABE
born in Upper Austria in 1960, lives and works in Vienna, Berlin, and
Sydney. Attended courses at the University of Vienna and at the Academy for
Applied Arts in Vienna from 1987 to 1992. Extended stays in London,
Australia, and Berlin. Important exhibits since the 1990s: Wiener Secession
1993, Salle de Bal Vienna 1994, Sarah Cottier Gallery Sydney 1995, 1999,
2001, 2003, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin 1998, Galerie Stadtpark Krems, 9
1/2 Villa Merkel Esslingen, Lafrenz Collection Museum Weserburg Bremen 2000,
New Zero DaimlerChryslerContemporary Berlin, Diskursive Malerei MUMOK Vienna
2001, fiedler contemporary Cologne 2002, Landesgalerie im Landesmuseum Linz
2004.
This also constitutes the second exhibit by Andreas Reiter Raabe in the
gallery. The catalogue "drippings pools curtains" was published in 2003 with
a text by Geoffrey Jacques. Another book is in preparation.
'There is something fragmental about the paintings by Andreas Reiter Raabe.
Layers of color are pushing beyond the edge of the painting urging to leak
into the space, thereby facilitating the expansion of paintings into the
room, as do his objects, which act as projection surfaces. Dripped across
edges, poured across surfaces, or painted onto glass, the color often emits
a shining physical sublimity, which lets it appear in representational
features. Reflections on the surface highlight the painting free of
monumentality and frontality. Therefore, the color interacts with what it
surrounds, supports or cushions, so determining it as the subject of its
brace.' (quoted from Helene Ulrich)
Opening: September 11, 2003 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Exhibit runs through October 31, 2003
Image: Stanley Whitney
Coyote Blue, 2002
Öl auf Leinwand
137 x 152 cm
Courtesy: Christine König Galerie
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