Stefan Hirsig
14 Jun - 05 Jul 2008
Stefan Hirsig
New works and book preview
Waves in February
Klosterfelde Gallery is pleased to announce a book launch of a new catalogue with an accompanying exhibition of new works by Stefan Hirsig. The book of 210 pages is issued in cooperation with Rainer Crone und Alexandra Stosch with Giampaolo Prearo as publisher, and grants an overview of the Berlin artist’s oeuvre over the past 4 years.
The canvases on show were created and are to be seen as individual works which is atypical of Hirsig, who often works in series, playing through variations on a similar theme in same-format rows, always keeping in mind the spatial installation in the process of painting. In fact, the images all have different dimensions and remain solitary with regards to color and composition. Thus they reflect the complexity already inherent in the individual picture. The paintings "Eyes Wide Open" and "Soul Tempura" are still similar in their compositional arrangement, with the image’s epicentre seemingly turning convex into the room, or pulling-away into the inside of the image. Afterall, with Hirsig there is always in spite of all abstraction a play on the evocation of three-dimensionality, on the illusion of the figurative. A new motif of estrangement is introduced when biomorphic grey-rimmed formations of stone-like surrealistic eggs hover in space reminiscent more of ́Gestalt` than of figure.
Hirsig’s complex systems of spirals and rigid patterns, layerings of fore- and backgrounds, splashes of colour and areas of poured paint coalesce into a dialectic image construct, in which order is pitted against chaos and organic against anorganic, creating continuous ruptures and dissonances. Crone/Stosch compare the painterly approach of Stefan Hirsig with the composition of musical structures where, following the logic of duality of harmony and dissonance, dynamic is established:
"Thus the formal dissonances in Hirsig motivate color progression from color harmony to color harmony. [...] He runs through variations of widely different colors and forms in a dynamic combination that is a positive invitation to ‘listen for’ the visual movement and perceive it synesthetically."
For further information of images please contact Esther Quiroga: esther.quiroga@klosterfelde.de
opening: June 13th, 6 - 9pm
exhibition: June 14th – July 5th, 2008
gallery hours: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am - 6pm
New works and book preview
Waves in February
Klosterfelde Gallery is pleased to announce a book launch of a new catalogue with an accompanying exhibition of new works by Stefan Hirsig. The book of 210 pages is issued in cooperation with Rainer Crone und Alexandra Stosch with Giampaolo Prearo as publisher, and grants an overview of the Berlin artist’s oeuvre over the past 4 years.
The canvases on show were created and are to be seen as individual works which is atypical of Hirsig, who often works in series, playing through variations on a similar theme in same-format rows, always keeping in mind the spatial installation in the process of painting. In fact, the images all have different dimensions and remain solitary with regards to color and composition. Thus they reflect the complexity already inherent in the individual picture. The paintings "Eyes Wide Open" and "Soul Tempura" are still similar in their compositional arrangement, with the image’s epicentre seemingly turning convex into the room, or pulling-away into the inside of the image. Afterall, with Hirsig there is always in spite of all abstraction a play on the evocation of three-dimensionality, on the illusion of the figurative. A new motif of estrangement is introduced when biomorphic grey-rimmed formations of stone-like surrealistic eggs hover in space reminiscent more of ́Gestalt` than of figure.
Hirsig’s complex systems of spirals and rigid patterns, layerings of fore- and backgrounds, splashes of colour and areas of poured paint coalesce into a dialectic image construct, in which order is pitted against chaos and organic against anorganic, creating continuous ruptures and dissonances. Crone/Stosch compare the painterly approach of Stefan Hirsig with the composition of musical structures where, following the logic of duality of harmony and dissonance, dynamic is established:
"Thus the formal dissonances in Hirsig motivate color progression from color harmony to color harmony. [...] He runs through variations of widely different colors and forms in a dynamic combination that is a positive invitation to ‘listen for’ the visual movement and perceive it synesthetically."
For further information of images please contact Esther Quiroga: esther.quiroga@klosterfelde.de
opening: June 13th, 6 - 9pm
exhibition: June 14th – July 5th, 2008
gallery hours: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am - 6pm