PREVIEW THE ARMORY SHOW - GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE | BOOTH 114 9 to 12 SEPTEMBER 2021
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PREVIEW THE ARMORY SHOW GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE | BOOTH 114 9 to 12 SEPTEMBER 2021
ARTISTS ON VIEW PAT STEIR ALICE AYCOCK IDRIS KHAN MICHAEL MÜLLER DAVID HARTT JONAS WEICHSEL JONATHAN LASKER ALLAN MCCOLLUM This PDF represents works presented and available at our Booth 114 at The Armory Show 2021. For further information, please contact us.
PAT STEIR
Thanks to the signature “drip”-style of her paintings, Pat Steir (born
1940 in Newark, NJ) since the 1980s has been at the forefront of
American painting.
In her works, the paint itself paints the painting, relaying to the
beholder the deep physicality of time, the workings of gravity, and
the exigencies of chance. Art historian Doris von Drathen writes: “In
contrast to the Action Painting of someone like Jackson Pollock, who
did his pourings on the ground, Pat Steir works with canvasses leaning
against the wall, and by building an elaborate complexity of layerings,
she creates pictorial spaces whose meditative silence is reminiscent of
Agnes Martin. The consummate art of Pat Steir lies in the delicately
equilibrated interplay between the force of gravity and the properties
of the paint, for its quantity, consistency and substance determine the
fragile oscillation between deliberate control and chance occurrence.
Thus, Pat Steir works, as she herself says, with the nature of painting.”
Pat Steir’s work is included in major public collections around the
world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the National
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., SFMOMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, the Tate, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Pat Steir Silver and Black Square, 2008 Oil on canvas 213 x 213 cm | 84 x 84 in
ALICE AYCOCK Alice Aycock’s work (born 1946, Harrisburg, PA) can be found in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and many others. She first gained international recognition in 1977 with her contribution to documenta 6. Much of Aycock’s work in both the public and private spheres has been a meditation on the philosophical ramifications of technology from the simplest tool (the arrowhead and the plow) to the computer. Like many of her more recent works, her sculpture Alien Twister incorporates the images of references to energy in the form of spirals, whirlwinds, whirlpools, and spinning tops and in particular visualizes the movement of wind energy. It also relates to a series of monumental sculptures, which were first presented in a spectacular installation on New York’s Upper East Side in 2014 under the title Park Avenue Paper Chase. Over the summer of 2020, Alice Aycock presented six of her large outdoor sculptures in the Royal Gardens in Stockholm in Sweden.
Alice Aycock Alien Twister, 2018 Powder coated aluminum 213 x 190 cm | 84 x 74 3/4 in Edition 2/3 + 1AP + 1EP
IDRIS KHAN Idris Khan OBE (born 1978 in Birmingham, UK) in the last few years has become one of the UK’s most successful artists and has also gained great international acclaim. In 2017, he was awarded the American Architecture Prize for the design of his Memorial Monument and Pavilion of Honour in the new Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi. In October 2019, Khan’s monumental sculpture 65,000 Photographs was installed at the new public plaza in Blackfriars in London and is the artist’s first permanent public artwork in the UK. In 2022, he will stage a major solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin. Also in 2022, Khan will be showing at the Chateau La Coste in the Provence in France.
Idris Khan Lightening Fell Silent, 2021 Oil based ink on gesso on dark blue aluminum panel Framed: 77.2 x 62.2 x 5.2 cm | 30 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 in
MICHAEL MÜLLER Michael Müller (born 1970 in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany) is a conceptual artist whose manifold, proliferating oeuvre resists any straightforward or one-way interpretation. Müller continuously broadens the methods of his artistic expression, combining works on paper with painting, text- based work, sculpture, found objects, music, and performance, and has even developed a cosmetic line and fashion collection. He received great critical and curatorial attention for his Eighteen Exhibitions cycle, which resulted in solo exhibitions at two of Germany’s most progressive art institutions, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. At The Armory Show, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents two works of Michael Müller’s painting series “Before and behind the glass.” By painting directly on the glass pane, which usually separates the painting from its surroundings, we can see the paint “from behind” through the transparent surface. The composition therefore requires Müller to paint in reverse. Moreover, the brushstroke, the physical trace of the artist’s hand—traditionally central to the painterly process— remains hidden; concealed in the small space between the glass and the canvas or wall. Most recently, Müller had a very successful painting show at the private Kunsthalle of collector, Heiner Wemhöner, in Berlin.
Michael Müller Fernwirkung, 2021 2-part work, acrylic, lacquer and gesso on glass and printed aluminum Framed: 202 x 145 x 4.5 cm | 79 1/2 x 57 x 1 3/4 in
Michael Müller Dekonstruktion von Radikal 10, 2018/2019 Acrylic and lacquer on Belgian linen and glass Framed: 185.5 x 145.5 x 6 cm | 73 x 57 1/4 x 2 1/3 in
PAT STEIR
DAVID HARTT
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28 new paintings spanning the entire perimeter of the museum’s sec-
ond-floor inner-circle galleries.David Hartt The Histories (after Church), 2021 Tapestry (the image shows the photographic template) 274 x 183 cm | 108 x 72 in Edition 1/3 + 1AP
David Hartt Black Sun, 2021 Photogravure Framed: 85 x 62 cm | 33 1/2 x 24 1/2 in Edition 1/10 + 1AP
David Hartt The Histories (after Duncanson), 2020 Photogravure Framed: 62 x 85 cm | 24 1/2 x 33 1/2 in Edition 2/10 + 1AP
David Hartt The Histories (after Cazabon), 2020 Photogravure Framed: 85 x 62 cm | 33 1/2 x 24 1/2 in Edition 2/10 + 1AP
JONAS WEICHSEL Jonas Weichsel (born 1982 in Darmstadt, Germany) first studied in Mainz and Düsseldorf before completing his Meisterschüler at Städelschule Frankfurt. Recent solo exhibitions include Oldenburger Kunstverein (2021), Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop (2018), Museum Wiesbaden (2016), and Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M. (2013). In 2019 and 2020, he was part of the touring exhibition Now! Painting in Germany Today at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz—Museum Gunzenhauser, and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. At the Armory Show, the gallery presents a selection of prints from Weichsel’s ongoing series “Interstellar”(2021). The composition of the prints is derived from Weichsel’s TC paintings: the color surface is divided centrally into an upper, more color-intensive half and a lower, paler half. A diagonal line from the upper left to the lower right contributes to the spatial effect of the works. While the composition remains the same, the different color schemes make each of the prints unique. The complex and intense color gradients result from Weichsel’s specially developed printing technique using patented transparent acrylic inks in red, yellow, and blue. As in his paintings, Weichsel’s new works on paper are concerned with the clearly defined boundaries of what is technically possible and entire universes of color that can expand from there.
Jonas Weichsel Tc Dia (G) Napels, 2019 Installation view, Oldenburger Kunstverein, 2021
Jonas Weichsel Interstellar Series, 2021 Silkscreen on digital print on hand made paper, unique Framed: 45,3 x 34,5 x 2,8 cm | 17 3/4 x 13 2/3 x 1 in
Jonas Weichsel Interstellar Series, 2021 Silkscreen on digital print on hand made paper, unique Framed: 45,3 x 34,5 x 2,8 cm | 17 3/4 x 13 2/3 x 1 in
Jonas Weichsel Interstellar Series, 2021 Silkscreen on digital print on hand made paper, unique Framed: 45,3 x 34,5 x 2,8 cm | 17 3/4 x 13 2/3 x 1 in
Jonas Weichsel Interstellar Series, 2021 Silkscreen on digital print on hand made paper, unique Framed: 45,3 x 34,5 x 2,8 cm | 17 3/4 x 13 2/3 x 1 in
JONATHAN LASKER Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in Jersey City, NJ) is a painter whose constantly growing oeuvre simultaneously manifests the vitality as well as the validity of contemporary painting and is considered as pioneering in this regard by younger generations. In response to the lyrical abstraction, color field painting, and minimalism of the US of the 1970s, Lasker felt that painting was confronted with the challenge of artistic reinvention and set about to develop his self-referential system of sign-like forms and colors, which he still varies and reformulates today. Lasker’s paintings are colorful and precisely executed compositions which bring together unconventional forms and color combinations that question the traditional perception of foreground and background and the relationship between surface and figure. At this year’s Armory Show, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents some of the artist’s meticulously crafted maquettes.
Jonathan Lasker Untitled, 2015 Oil on paper 15 x 20 cm | 6 x 7 3/4 in Framed: 41 x 44 x 2 cm | 16 1/4 x 17 1/3 x 3/4 in
Jonathan Lasker Untitled, 2016 Oil on paper 15 x 20 cm | 6 x 7 3/4 in Framed: 41 x 44 x 2 cm | 16 1/4 x 17 1/3 x 3/4 in
PAT STEIR
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