Hans Schulte
11 Jan - 20 Feb 2006
HANS SCHULTE
"Spielzone"
January 11 – February 20, 2006
Opening, January 12, 7-9 pm
GRIMM|ROSENFELD MUNICH is pleased to announce the opening of its next exhibition, Hans Schulte: Spielzone. The exhibition presents new paintings and selected drawings by the Wuppertal-based artist.
Hans Schulte begins all of his paintings by completely covering his canvases with a thick, smooth layer of acrylic and rubber base. Into this substrate Schulte roughly carves dots and lines creating a sculptural ground distinct from the extremely delicate, almost transparent, figurative painting that is sometimes applied to the carved-out surfaces.
Schulte uses this subtle, wash technique to exhume the familiar heroes of painting: men in battle, figures in a landscape, interiors, people posing for portraits and objects of utility. The relationships between the thinly painted foreground and sculpted background in these paintings are both formal and narrative, and convey a reminder that paintings are objects made of a liquid to solid material (paint) that contain messages, or images, that transcend the physical nature of the painting. There is in Schulte’s pictures an inescapable conflict between figuration and abstraction, the enduring need to tell a story pitted against the more existential compulsion to say little if anything.
The pencil drawings, shown in the lower gallery, are characterized by a more impulsive, spontaneous quality. Hans Schulte uses irregular papers to create his drawings, and the weight of the paper, its color, texture and its flaws or damage provide an initial starting point for each drawing in much the same way that the acrylic base functions in his paintings. To Schulte, the paper is a kind of a priori “image” which is clarified by the drawing.
Hans Schulte was born 1967 in Essen, Germany. He studied with Markus Lüpertz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he earned his MA. In 2004 he received the Bergischer Kunstpreis, and his work will be shown later this year at the Museum Baden in Solingen in connection with the award.
GRIMM|ROSENFELD, Theresienstrasse 56/Rgb, 80333 München. Thursday to Friday 12 - 7 pm and Saturday 11 am - 2 pm
© Grimm | Rosenfeld
"Spielzone"
January 11 – February 20, 2006
Opening, January 12, 7-9 pm
GRIMM|ROSENFELD MUNICH is pleased to announce the opening of its next exhibition, Hans Schulte: Spielzone. The exhibition presents new paintings and selected drawings by the Wuppertal-based artist.
Hans Schulte begins all of his paintings by completely covering his canvases with a thick, smooth layer of acrylic and rubber base. Into this substrate Schulte roughly carves dots and lines creating a sculptural ground distinct from the extremely delicate, almost transparent, figurative painting that is sometimes applied to the carved-out surfaces.
Schulte uses this subtle, wash technique to exhume the familiar heroes of painting: men in battle, figures in a landscape, interiors, people posing for portraits and objects of utility. The relationships between the thinly painted foreground and sculpted background in these paintings are both formal and narrative, and convey a reminder that paintings are objects made of a liquid to solid material (paint) that contain messages, or images, that transcend the physical nature of the painting. There is in Schulte’s pictures an inescapable conflict between figuration and abstraction, the enduring need to tell a story pitted against the more existential compulsion to say little if anything.
The pencil drawings, shown in the lower gallery, are characterized by a more impulsive, spontaneous quality. Hans Schulte uses irregular papers to create his drawings, and the weight of the paper, its color, texture and its flaws or damage provide an initial starting point for each drawing in much the same way that the acrylic base functions in his paintings. To Schulte, the paper is a kind of a priori “image” which is clarified by the drawing.
Hans Schulte was born 1967 in Essen, Germany. He studied with Markus Lüpertz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he earned his MA. In 2004 he received the Bergischer Kunstpreis, and his work will be shown later this year at the Museum Baden in Solingen in connection with the award.
GRIMM|ROSENFELD, Theresienstrasse 56/Rgb, 80333 München. Thursday to Friday 12 - 7 pm and Saturday 11 am - 2 pm
© Grimm | Rosenfeld