ESSENTIAL REDUCTION
Galerie Heike Strelow
ESSENTIAL REDUCTION
A group exhibition featuring works by Felix Becker, Monika Brandmeier, Katrin Bremermann, Artjom Chepovetskyy, Goekhan Erdogan, Irene Grau, Oliver Gröne, India-Serena, Rafael Rangel, Mathias Kessler, Regine Schumann, Minh Dung Vu, Herbert Warmuth, and Winter / Hoerbelt
In cooperation with our affiliate, Strelow & Walter art projects.
“Essential Reduction" focuses on the power and poetry that lies in concentrating on its essence.
Whether intended or desired or not, we are in a time where reduction plays a central role. But reduction does not only mean renunciation, rather it has its own power and poetry. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this insight has encouraged many artists to concentrate on essential questions in their work, and in both modern and contemporary art movements, the concept of reduction has had a key role.
The artists of the exhibition "Essential Reduction" illustrate the astonishingly broad spectrum of this concept, which spans vocabularies of colors and forms to social discourses. Today, reduction is mostly understood as the concept of Minimalism. However, the practices of the artists represented in this exhibition is to be understood in the context of a post-minimalist discourse. "Essential Reduction" combines works that propose reduced aesthetic approaches but also go beyond the literal readability of minimalism, not only permitting levels of association again, but actually demanding them. At the same time, some of the artists raise exciting questions about the limits of art.
Herbert Warmuth, Weiß durch Weiß, acrylic behind and through plexiglass, 32 x 24 cm
Irene Grau, on what is left, 3424-P1, 2019, ashes on canvas, 35 x 24 cm
Felix Becker, untitled (Le ring), 2020, oil on paper on canvas, 82 x 65 cm
Herbert Warmuth, Orange durch Citron, acrylic behind and through plexiglass, 21 x 30 cm
Winter / Hoerbelt, Pixelkartoffel 2, 2018, 3D folded mirror, metal plates, 95 x 76 x 8 cm
Monika Brandmeier, ohne Titel (lines, hair, plait, scale), 1989, pencil on waxed paper, 24 x 30 cm
Artjom Chepovetskyy, Nr.16, 2018, mixed media on chiffon, 130 x 100 cm
GALERIE HEIKE STRELOW
Frankfurt, Germany
The gallery's program consists of solo and group exhibitions, bringing together young and established artists from Europe as well as South and North America. Irrespective of short-lived trends, we show artistic positions that pursue innovative and sustainable approaches, both in form and content. This can concern both individual and socio-political questions as well as the art-immanent discourse itself.
GALERIE HEIKE STRELOW is located at Lange Straße 31, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The exhibition “Essential Reduction” is on view November 13, 2020 – January 30, 2021
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