Abel Auer
20 May 2007 - 02 Feb 2008
ABEL AUER
"Heim?!"
20.12.2007 – 02.02. 2008, Opening 20.12.2007 at 7 pm
Labyrinth des Lebens, ich steh im Dunkel, such das Licht, stolpre, falle, find es nicht. Labyrinth des Lebens, ich lauf und stammle vor mich hin, denn ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin. (Christa Koch, 1972)
“Hermes und der Pfau” is presenting “Heim?!”, the first solo show of painter Abel Auer (*1974), who recently relocated to Brussels, at Dorten Haus. Abel Auer – originally from Stuttgart, Germany – has lived in Hamburg for ten years where he worked and exhibited in various group related coherences, among others as a founding member of Akademie Isotrop and in collaborative projects with Dorota Jurczak and Armin Krämer. In his seemingly psychedelic paintings, often depicting desolate forests and mountain landscapes lost in reverie, Abel Auer refers to the tradition of Surrealism and Eastern European Folk Art alike, as well as medieval book illustrations and Dutch landscape painting from the 17th century. The tension resulting from a combination of classical composition, the shrieking intensity of his colours and a consciously simplifying vocabulary of forms, makes his work – in its surreal crankiness – reminiscent of magic dream sequences.
Abel Auers work was last shown in solo exhibitions at P.S.1 in New York (with Dorota Jurczak, 2007), at Corvi-Mora in London (2006), at Gallery Gabriele Senn, Vienna (with Armin Krämer and Dorota Jurczak, 2005) and at Diözesansmuseum in Freising (with Kai Althoff, 2003). His particpations in group exhibitions include Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo (2007), Tiroler Künstlerschaft in Innsbruck (2006), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York (2005), and Le Consortium in Dijon (2005).
Abel Auer is represented by the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and Gallery Gabriele Senn in Vienna.
Until March, 8th 2008 the exhibition “A und O”, curated by Abel Auer, is on show at Galerie Jürgen Becker in Hamburg.
"Heim?!"
20.12.2007 – 02.02. 2008, Opening 20.12.2007 at 7 pm
Labyrinth des Lebens, ich steh im Dunkel, such das Licht, stolpre, falle, find es nicht. Labyrinth des Lebens, ich lauf und stammle vor mich hin, denn ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin. (Christa Koch, 1972)
“Hermes und der Pfau” is presenting “Heim?!”, the first solo show of painter Abel Auer (*1974), who recently relocated to Brussels, at Dorten Haus. Abel Auer – originally from Stuttgart, Germany – has lived in Hamburg for ten years where he worked and exhibited in various group related coherences, among others as a founding member of Akademie Isotrop and in collaborative projects with Dorota Jurczak and Armin Krämer. In his seemingly psychedelic paintings, often depicting desolate forests and mountain landscapes lost in reverie, Abel Auer refers to the tradition of Surrealism and Eastern European Folk Art alike, as well as medieval book illustrations and Dutch landscape painting from the 17th century. The tension resulting from a combination of classical composition, the shrieking intensity of his colours and a consciously simplifying vocabulary of forms, makes his work – in its surreal crankiness – reminiscent of magic dream sequences.
Abel Auers work was last shown in solo exhibitions at P.S.1 in New York (with Dorota Jurczak, 2007), at Corvi-Mora in London (2006), at Gallery Gabriele Senn, Vienna (with Armin Krämer and Dorota Jurczak, 2005) and at Diözesansmuseum in Freising (with Kai Althoff, 2003). His particpations in group exhibitions include Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo (2007), Tiroler Künstlerschaft in Innsbruck (2006), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York (2005), and Le Consortium in Dijon (2005).
Abel Auer is represented by the Corvi-Mora Gallery in London and Gallery Gabriele Senn in Vienna.
Until March, 8th 2008 the exhibition “A und O”, curated by Abel Auer, is on show at Galerie Jürgen Becker in Hamburg.