Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of JAMES ENGLISH LEARY in Austria and the opening of the new PROJECT ROOM presenting PATRIC SANDRI “PAINT(H)INGS”.
JAMES ENGLISH LEARY “THE BURSTING GRAPE”
The paintings of James English Leary (*1982 Chicago, US) pit figuration against abstraction invoking metaphors that nurse (and satirize) camp-psychological states in the viewer.
Rather than ?painting the paintings? Leary constructs them out of painting?s component parts (stretcher, fabric, color, in that order) often employing a shaped substrate.
The resulting image-objects and their buoyant overtures towards a ?language? humorously engage the problematics of how to ?read? a painting and conjure the art experience as a slapstick rorschach, a drama of legibility, which hinges on the impossibility of making a shape that doesn?t eventually refer back to something of this world.
PATRIC SANDRI “PAINT(H)INGS”
The exhibition “PAINT(H)INGS” features new works of Patric Sandri (*1979 Uster, CH) including compositions with lines, colors and mathematical concepts.
Sandri questions the role and function of the painting and extends it into a three-dimensionality by using the stretcher frame. The construction of the individual stretcher frames is based on a mathematical concept of interlacing and overlapping, followed by the application of color.
The conditions of painting are revealed, the primary colors applied on the wood-constructions mix with each-other, shimmer, reflect and radiate through transparent fabrics onto their background, giving the artist´s works a sculptural character.
Patric Sandri manages to develop non-figurative pictorial objects in a unique way, revealing their meaning through the act of observation.