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21/3/2000

Painting

Esso Gallery, New York

Esso Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition PAINTING, curated by Nino Weinstock.
The theme of the exhibition PAINTING as the title itself could explain is color. Color in the sense of the question of Oswald Wiener: "...why does all the world talk about the red square and nobody talks about the square red...". About the artists included, four of the twelve painters have been shown by Thomas Krens in the exhibition Radical Painting, in Williamstown: Marcia Hafif, New York (1929, Pomona, CA), Joseph Marioni, New York (1943, Cincinnati), Phil Sims, New York (1940, Richmond CA), Frederic M. Thursz (1930 - 1992 Casablanca, Marocco) and three others have already had contact with the Williamstown artists: Erik Saxon, New York (1942, San Francisco), Peter Tollens, Cologne (1954 Kleve, Germany) and Dieter Villinger, Munich (1947, Bad Bergzabern, Germany). These seven artists have all worked since the early eighties to develop the history of painting. They consider simultaneously the primateship of colors as used by abstract expressionism and also the new possibilities opened by conceptual art; in addition to that they refer to the questions raised by the paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Robert Ryman. But in no way is their work comparable one to the other, although there seem to be many points in common. The other five artists featured in the exhibition have dealt with the same issues and are: Rudolf de Crignis, New York (1948 Winterthur, Switzerland) who's work is never really about color but more about the basic artistic question of instability, processuality and about the non-availability of the visible.
Peter Willen, Thun (1941, Thun, Switzerland) had spent much time in Düsseldorf on his artistic path, but he found his sensible technique and the right colors for his work in Thun. Winston Roeth, New York (1945, Chicago IL) has worked on reducing his free forms to Minimalism and "Geometrical Disciplinarity" since the '70s and has lead the Farbfeldmalerei. Daniel Göttin, Basel (1959 Basel, Switzerland) who had worked in the entourage of Donald Judd in Marfa and Michael Rouillard, New York (1955 Valparaiso, FL) are the youngest in this group and are exploring the experience made in the field of painting by minimalism moving it into that of materials. While Göttin colors his sharp-edged canvases, Rouillard's work uses colored metal plates.
MONOCHROMES
In hardly any painting the colors are used unmixed. For reducing does not mean to simplify. The theme of this exhibition is not unicolorness, but painted color. And within this process the colour is made by many layers putted on the surface by brush, rag, spatula or "color-roller", being very often the result of different colors. And only by right interactions of different layers, the wished colour-expression develops and reaches the effect. But to gain the result, the binding-agent does not have to be mixed in any layer with the same amount of colour pigment. Therefore technical variety and emotional possibilities are neverending, and anything is possible in painting.
Nino Weinstock

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