Andrew Kreps Gallery is located in Chelsea, New York city. Andrew Kreaps is the owner and director of this gallery and there are 4 more staffs are cooperating. Andrew Kreps has an appreciative vision which selects art works are not easy to understand. The exhibition of Ellen Gronemeyer and Michael Hakimi is a good example of it.
Ellen Gronemeyer is a Germen painter, living in London and she is exhibiting her painting works which are thickly painted humane shapes and abstract images. Most of her works are dark and alternated with some layers of pell-mell with oil colors and etched. The paintings are abstract but the shapes are quite understandable. Her works are most about personal figures staring distant outside of the frame. She describes human shape in interior space with half-abstract shapes. According to the gallery curator, the works represent created spaces, but reflects viewer’s coexisted experience in the real gallery.
Michael Hakimi is also a German artist in Berlin and he is exhibiting his installations which were originally a part of a bigger art piece in Center Pompidou in Paris. His most works are sky lines of skyscrapers in city space and paper based abstract Found Art made with ordinary objects to symbolic and esthetical work. Hakimi uses two- dimensional graphic prints and slight three dimensional architectural spaces for viewers to understand his works. The piece I was impressed is “Skyline” (stencil, 2006) which is based on a piece of recycled newspaper and the townscape is cut out for stencil. It has desaturated sprayed silhouette for represent a scene of the suffering city. He made it like a stretched upper cloth but its edge expresses skyline.
For understanding and finding a connected theme of these two artist’s works, I had to see their works on the website again and again, but I couldn’t find the clear mutual theme except for their origin. They seem to be representing the loneliness of modern people and their living place, city. Ellen's thick painted texture seems to be people's closed and heavy suffer, and Hakimi's recycled materials initially seeme to quite green art but its meaning is quite desperate.
Andrew Kreps Gallery
525 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
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http://www.andrewkreps.com/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/arts/design/06gall.html?ex=1184644800&en=8bf677d9f4006589&ei=5070
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Two artists’ works seem to have a similar sense. Ellen Gronemeyer paints a figure in interior space, and the mood of each work is somewhat gloomy and heavy. It is because of dark color, the pose of figures and the relationship between a figure and its space. I do not know why those paintings look down and every figure in her works is estimated as female. Perhaps the figures have smooth contour line relatively. Especially through her two pieces, Now and Behind the Window, I can guess the artist tries to illustrate the agony of the weak and the minor. And Michael Hakimi shows some installations. He may consider the situation of the art pieces. One of his works, Skyline, is hung up side down and I did not recognize this at first. When I saw it, I thought the white wall is a part of Skyline. I think the way it is installed has some symbolic meanings such as a punished city, a suffering city or the artist’s choice to stress ideal city by showing opposite work. And the reason he select black spray might be to make much contrast with white wall. Moreover, the art works of both two artists are in the same room and they are not arranged separately. So I can feel stronger feelings. A picture including two work each of which is painted different artists is impressive for me. Sinking building and Behind all These Windows match each other. If I see this directly, I could see more than that.
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