FLY ON THE WALL – Delicious Mischief
June 7, 2023Americans have little patience for depth or nuance. We are a literal people. We want things when we want them. We prefer the surface of things. We want the answers to our questions presented to us with no funny business. Excel charts, bullet points, sequential outlines and cliff notes make us feel secure and in control. Leaves all the froufrou out of it and we know exactly where we stand. When Stella painted the Black canvases he used a simple recipe to make straightforward things that succinctly encapsulated the endgame of American Modernism. Direct. Egalitarian. Incontrovertible. And he would hammer…
FLY ON THE WALL – Dead But Won’t Lay Down
“In a period epitomized by Godard’s “Breathless” (1960), striving young Europeans shook off the war-dimmed legacies of their national cultures for the confident flash of things American. New York Abstract Expressionism and Pop art and, a bit later, minimalism became…
An Appreciation – Gesso Art Space & Andreas Reiter Raabe
We all make assumptions about the future of art and painting – especially at this moment in time. With AI changing the way we communicate, the way we see and the way we understand the world we are ushering in…
Robin Greenwood
Artists are a strange lot. They can be pig headed and argumentative. And some, when they are totally convinced that they are right, can be downright offensive. Hey, artists are human. And that was what appealed to me straight away…
Hello, World! Or The Passage From First-Order to Second-Order Painting
Li Trincere, Untitled (T14), 2022 David Richard Gallery, New York https://davidrichardgallery.com/exhibit/620-li-trincere https://davidrichardgallery.com/exhibit/621-li-trincere Mike ZahnFebruary 2023 Today, in 2023, a painter rarely presents work without an aside which admits to the dispossession of this moment. It becomes clear as style is…
When Considering All Knowledge Already Exists : Some Pictures by Tarn McLean
Tarn McLeanSeeing Painting Grey Street Gallery Southbank Brisbane AU March 20—April 6, 2023 Mike Zahn February 2023 Tarn McLeanSeeing Painting (Yuga Labs Bored Aped with Mona Lisa), 2023 Oil on canvas42 x 70 inches Meta-modern artworks are notable for suggesting an…
Modernité, Merdonité, and The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat
Mike Zahn January 2023 Julianne, Julia, and / or Julie, 2023Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) 544 x 544 RGB20 KB Novel innovation in the visual arts proceeds from depiction of the human face. The features of another present a special type…
“Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts”
New Work by Mike Zahn Gesso ArtspaceMaria Lassnig Straße 33 1100 Wien January 2023 MZ_JM:1.17.22 “Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts“, 2023Detail of gallery viewGesso Artspace “Julianne Montague: A Composition in Six Parts” presents the work of one artist by…
Fett auf Mager
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Mike Zahn23 January 2023 Jean-Fréderic SchnyderDetail from the exhibition Jean-Frédéric SchnyderVienna SecessionJanuary—May 2023 https://secession.at/ausstellung_jean_frederic_schnyder_en Contemporary art risks fatigue through repetition of and familiarity with that which is seen. Furthermore, given the ubiquity of the Internet, suspicions are harbored that everyday…
Mit Jai Inn, Rudolf Polanzky, Andreas Reiter Raabe
Mit Jai Inn, Rudolf Polanzky, Andreas Reiter Raabe Gesso Artspace33 Maria Lassnig Straße 1100 Wien January 2023 www.gessoartspace.com www.instagram.com/gesso.artspace Mit Jai Inn, Rudolf Polanzky, Andreas Reiter RaabeGallery view Gesso Artspace January 2023 The mantle of abstraction specifies certain processes which…
George Hofmann – Dialogue
In Painting, gesture is language…. George thought it would be interesting to start a discussion about painting, about this moment in time for painting, and so, he gives us a loaded topic that still resonates with painters today. What is…
