Terry Winters
dal 16/1/2002 al 2/3/2002
Segnalato da
16/1/2002
Terry Winters
White Cube, London
Paintings. White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Terry Winters. The exhibition will consist of a number of paintings taken from Winters' most recent body of work entitled 'Set Diagram', a series of 100 pictures measuring one metre by one yard. 'Set Diagram' is a term used to describe relationships between two or more sets of information, and the work in this series utilizes Winters' method of combining already existing data into new configurations.
Paintings
White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Terry
Winters. The exhibition will consist of a number of paintings taken from Winters' most recent
body of work entitled 'Set Diagram', a series of 100 pictures measuring one metre by one yard.
'Set Diagram' is a term used to describe relationships between two or more sets of information,
and the work in this series utilizes Winters' method of combining already existing data into new
configurations.
For this exhibition, Winters has chosen a key selection of 15 pictures which form a distillation of
the series as a whole. These works will be exhibited alongside two larger paintings with
significantly different organizational principles: one is a taut, grid structure, the other a fluid
matrix. These two larger canvases will act as brackets for the exhibition, establishing the scope
of the group.
The idea for 'Set Diagram' grew out of discussions that Winters had with the Dutch architect
Rem Koolhaas, who designed the first installation of 60 paintings from this series shown last
spring in New York. These paintings, like all of the artist's work, draw together a variety of
natural and artificial source materials such as biological photography, computer animation and
architectural structures.
During the 20 years of his career, Winters has developed a complex abstract language
comprised of energetic fields and lines which create dense, graphic images that frequently
converge into an impacted central core. The patterns and shapes that emerge suggest various
hypothetical worlds. Ranging from the molecular to the psychological and the social, Winters
paints what John Rajchman has called "the theme of the brain-city." His paintings also engage
many ideas of post-War abstract art, referencing works such as the paintings of Jackson
Pollock and the futuristic architectures of Buckminster Fuller.
Through abstraction, Winters explores and maps bodies of order, chaos, gravity and speed. In
the artist's new work, the spaces of the digital age are mediated by human gesture, creating
hybrid images, at once contemporary and archaic. The basis for all of Winters' painting is
drawing, and the network of lines on the surface of his pictures creates an all-over energy. The
goal is to describe forces - both virtual and actual. For Winters, the picture-making process is a
'collaboration with circumstance', a pragmatics where chance and intention collide. Through
urgent and immediate mark making, using wax, oil and resin, Winters creates different palpable
sensations. At some points the paint is heavily applied and intensely visceral, at other times it is
lucidly translucent, creating different temperatures and emotional qualities within a single picture
plane.
Terry Winters lives and works in New York and Geneva. He has had many group and solo
exhibitions internationally, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of
American Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery and The Tate Gallery, London.
For further information please contact Alexandra Bradley or Honey Luard on 020 7930 5373.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm.
Preview Thursday 17th January 6-8pm
White Cube²
48 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB
t. 020 79305373