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Chicago
410 S Michigan Av. (Fine Arts Building)
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Christian Rieben
dal 7/6/2007 al 4/7/2007

Segnalato da

Barbara Goebels-Cattaneo



 
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7/6/2007

Christian Rieben

Art Exhibition Link, Chicago

Painting. Starfishes and octopuses, opulent blossoms, circles reminding annual rings inscribed in dark holes: through these metaphors, the artist takes us to a sub aqueous world, we are diving deep in the subconscious sphere.


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Octupussy

Curator Barbara Goebels-Cattaneo

The subjects in Rieben’s paintings and black and white drawings are overwhelming their environment. They are spreading out on the canvas but at the same time their concentric shape is leading the view at one central focus. Rieben uses the whole repertoire of artistic means: Powerful flow of colours, opaque application in wide ribbons, or delicate filigree, meticulous structures, often combined in the same image.

Starfishes and octopuses, opulent blossoms, circles reminding annual rings inscribed in dark holes: Through these metaphors, Rieben takes us to a sub aqueous world, we are diving deep in the subconscious sphere, where subjects get a different, a further significance.
‘I make paintings about love – specifically, losing at love’, Rieben explains. Explicit erotic connotations occur, but also the void after an excruciating loss evolves in his paintings and drawings. Like a black hole, the visualised emptiness engulfs the environment. Even light is absorbed: Pain at its worst.
Rieben develops a language of painting, combining abstract and representational components to a synthesis, which allows the direct transmission of emotions through the image depicted on the canvas.

Referring to painting tradition since early Renaissance, Rieben explores the medium canvas. What about Alberti’s theory, declared in 1435, supposing the canvas being similar to an open window, admitting with a view to the world beyond the image area? Reflections of this theory also come to mind, when you think of the flat rectangular screen of TV. Many of Rieben’s paintings imply the idea of a screen, rectangular or circular, a black area within the image, questioning the suggestion of reality of appearance. In Modern painting, the canvas became more and more an object. Rieben’s paintings oscillate in the tension between traditional and modern painting, between approving and negating the canvas as an image.
So draw aside the curtains, open the window and take a look at an extraordinary world, Riben’s world

CHRISTIAN RIEBEN graduated MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.

Opening reception: Friday, June 8th, 4.30–9.30 pm

Art Exhibition Link
410 S Michigan Av. - Chicago
Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 2–6 pm and by appointment

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