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8/2/2000

NICOLAS RULE, MARCO BREUER

Esso Gallery, New York

The exhibition includes new paintings featuring genealogies of racehorses and revolutionaries. The former shows the major bloodlines of current American champions, the latter lists the names of the first expeditionaries of the Cuban revolution. Like history paintings or portraits the paintings appear to commemorate specific lives and events. On first impression Rule's
work opposes two ideological extremes. Genealogy and revolution would seem to represent mutually exclusive worldviews. But on a second reading the meaning lies outside of the apparent subject. Visually the paintings stand somewhere between abstraction and conceptualism. The subject directs the morphology of the painting (genealogy: vertical, subject to gravity,
organic, red/blue; revolution: dynamic, defying gravity, turning, red).
What really engages the artist is the process of a subject determining the form of a painting. If the subjects, prior to painting, are unambiguous and literal then the application of Rule's light lyrical touch denies them that certainty.

Nicolas Rule was born in Birmingham, England. Educated in London and New York he has resided in New York for the last 15 years. His paintings have been exhibited widely in the U.S.A and in Europe.

MARCO BREUER "FOR NOW"
Esso Gallery will feature an exhibition of photographic works by Marco Breuer in the Project Room.
Opening February 9, FOR NOW will run through March 11, 2000. In this work-in-progress, Breuer uses photographic sketches to reflect on notions of failure. Exploring the link between photography and performance, he examines the transitive quality of photography, testing the physical limits of both himself and his working material. Drawing on the motions of the day, Breuer thrives on contradictions: FOR NOW is a complex interplay between acts performed for the camera and cameraless records of
physical experiences. Layered with numerous personal and historical references, these tentative exercises translate into images with varying degrees of intimacy. Using traditional and non-traditional photographic techniques, Breuer reflects on the very qualities of the photographic medium itself. His investigative use of the medium is constructive, rather than documentary, going beyond mere illustration of pre-conceived notions.

Marco Breuer is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied photography in Germany and has since exhibited widely in the United States and Germany. His work is included in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University and the Staatsgalerie in
Stuttgart, Germany.

A tabloid publication will be available.

Opening reception: Friday, February 11, 2000 6-9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: February 9 - March 11, 2000
Gallery hours are from Wednesday to Saturday, 1pm-6pm, or by appointment.
ESSO Gallery is under the administrative and curatorial direction of Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati.

Esso Gallery
191 Chrystie Street
New York NY 10002
tel. (212) 714-8192
fax (212) 505-5805

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