Peter Hutchinson
dal 4/3/2005 al 30/4/2005
Segnalato da
4/3/2005
Peter Hutchinson
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf
New cycle of work entitled the 'Giant Flower Series', and the portfolio, 'High Altitudes - Ten Alpine Landscapes', completed in 2004. This comprises collages from colour photographs, partly worked over in oil pastels or gouache and inscribed with short texts by the artist. Hutchinson was one of the pioneers of Land Art
'Giant Flower Series' & 'High Altitudes - Ten Alpine Landscapes'
Peter Hutchinson (*1930) is British by birth and has lived at Provincetown,
Massachusetts, since 1953. As one of the pioneers of Land Art, he is represented
with works in renowned public collections such as the Museum für Gegenwartskunst
in Basle and the MoMA in New York.
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer is following solo exhibitions by Hutchinson in 1993,
1995, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002 by showing his new cycle of work entitled the
Giant Flower Series (2003/2004), and the portfolio, High Altitudes - Ten Alpine
Landscapes, completed in 2004. This comprises collages from colour photographs,
partly worked over in oil pastels or gouache and inscribed with short texts by
the artist.
The portfolio has been published in an edition of twenty-five copies each
containing ten pieces measuring 50 x 50 cm / 20 x 20 ins. In a journey through
continents, seasons, times, fauna and flora, Hutchinson composes artistic ideal
landscapes of resplendent colours, which the viewer will not find in reality.
The work is dominated by the alpine ranges of the title, but the strength of the
impression is due as much to the huge diversity of flowering plants from the
innumerable gardens whose aesthetic delight is generated by their contrasts of
intense colour - a sustained effect that does not dull in time or at a second
glance.
The Giant Flower Series, consisting of eleven one-off works in landscape format
and measuring 76 x 102 cm / 30 x 40 ins., likewise uses the collage principle.
Unlike the Alpine Landscapes, however, the effect of clarity, calm and
introversion derives from the unified colour tone and the occasionally highly
personal lines of text. The 'landscape' background forms a fitting 'stage' for
the single, monumentally enlarged blooms and sets the keynote for the atmosphere
and the associations.
Image: Peter Hutchinson, Biological Circle, 1970
Private View: Sat, March 5, 2005, 4pm-7pm
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer
Düsseldorfer Str. 6 . 40545 Düsseldorf
Gallery open: Tue-Fri 1-7pm, Sat 12-4pm; and by appointment