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Seven-Up
24 OCTOBER - 7 NOVEMBER 2020Isabella Ducrot, Wade Guyton, Charline von Heyl, Martin Kippenberger, Tobias Pils, Pieter Schoolwerth, Amy Sillman
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Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Seven-Up, a presentation of works by seven artists initially conceived to be shown at this year's FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris. In light of current events (and the consequent cancellation of art fairs around the world), the gallery will be showing the booth as intended for the fair in its Berlin space.
The works presented all share a common thread of optimism and humor in what has been a tumultuous year. Seven-Up takes its name from a dynamic new painting by Charline von Heyl. The presentation also includes works by: Isabella Ducrot, Wade Guyton, Martin Kippenberger, Tobias Pils, Pieter Schoolwerth and Amy Sillman.
Charline von Heyl
Seven-Up, 2020
Acrylic and oil on linen
198.1 x 127 cm / 78 x 50 inches -
Martin Kippenberger's lantern Untitled from 1989 is part of a group of the so called 'lantern-sculptures', which were created between 1988 and 1992. Each lantern exists in three unique versions. They were made out of iron and vary in form, size and color. These sculptures – originally derived "from a classic cartoon, the bent street lamp, without the figure of the drunkard" – question the idea of "the paradox of the constructed readymade as well as issues relating to the objectness of the object.”
The lamp's head reflects an element of a conventional bourgeois world, to be found outside well-to-do family homes or adorning a garden. Nevertheless the steel construction lacquered in red and the light evoke an association of nightlife, demi-monde and hidden amusement. In this way, Kippenberger plays with the discrepancy between formal severity and kitsch. With his usual aplomb, the artist connects these diverging aesthetical as well as moral fields.
Martin KippenbergerUntitled, 1989Iron, glass, light bulb, lacquer, cable273.5 x 46 x 46 cm / 107.7 x 18.1 x 18.1 inchesEdition of 3 unique versions -
Tobias Pils’ suggestive figurations are not entirely legible nor altogether abstract, but rather create associative worlds of forms that appear as paradoxes that resist a straightforward reading. Out of a palette of varied grey tones, he creates paintings that vibrate with texture, full of unexpected depths and infinite tones. The viewer is confronted with unexpected iconography and motifs that then seemingly take several directions at once and create compositions of interpretive ambiguity that invite deeper contemplation.
Tobias Pils is currently exhibiting at the Musée Picasso Paris as part of the exhibitions "Picasso et la bande dessinée" and "Picasso Poète", as well as at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich as part of the exhbition "Au Rendez-Vous des Amis", a dialogue between classical modern and contemporary art from the Goetz Collection.Tobias PilsA Family, 2020Oil and acrylic on canvasFramed dimensions:
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Amy Sillman’s distinctive artistic practice operates at the juncture between the abstract and the figurative. Her large-scale, gestural oil paintings as well as her finer drawings are layered and complex reflections on themes such as physicality, language and interrelativity, often with a humorous and cartoonish effect. Sillman has become one of the most influential figures of 21st century painting, reinvigorating a new form of abstract expressionism as she moves across mediums seamlessly, integrating elements such as collage, drawing and printmaking into the same practice.
Amy SillmanXL43, 2020Acrylic, ink, oil and silkscreen on paper152.4 x 101.6 cm / 60 x 40 inches -
Isabella Ducrot is known for her devoted use of woven cloth as the founding material of her paintings. Only beginning her artistic career later in life, the Italian artist assembled a sublime collection of antique textiles through her extensive travels through Asia, originating primarily from Turkey, India, China, Tibet and Afghanistan. Fascinated by the presence of rhythm and rhyme within such textiles, she has made it her artistic mission to transform them into objects which express the rhythm of life.
Isabella DucrotRipetizione Marone (from the series Arazzi), 2019Mixed media on textile148 x 90 cm / 58.3 x 35.4 inches -
Wade Guyton has over the last two decades produced an oeuvre that has made him a key figure of 21st century contemporary painting and abstract art. In his distinctive large-scale inkjet paintings, such as this work which depicts the floor of Guyton's studio, he manipulates images with scanners and digital programs. This process often creates unplanned slippages and mistakes — streaks or blurs, which comment on appropriation and copying, but also on our engagement with art and images in the digital age.
Wade GuytonUntitled, 2018Epson UltraChrome HDX inkjet on linen213.4 x 175.3 cm / 84 x 69 inches -
Pieter Schoolwerth's vivid multimedia paintings create complex and absurd figurative scenes that analogize how technology, or other 'forces of abstraction', as he calls them, produce the world we live in. His multidimensional scenes appear at once playful but also profoundly disorienting and illusory.
Schoolwerth's elaborate production process moves between digital and handmade modes, combining sculpture, photography and painting. Photographs of live models and objects form the compositional base of his work, from which three-dimensional models are created, only for these assembled scenes to be photographed again and digitally manipulated and edited. This image is printed onto canvas and finally, painted over with oil pigments, adding detail and texture.
In December 2020, Pieter Schoolwerth will open a solo-exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover, running from December 5th, to Feburary 7th, 2021.Pieter SchoolwerthInvisible Social Vandalism #2, 2018Oil, acrylic and giclée print on canvas210.8 x 182.9 cm / 83 x 72 inches -
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