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Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040, Vienna, Austria
Open: Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
Artist: Franco Andrés
Focus On: Franco Andrés: Madly meeting logically in this hour.
12-9pm
Galerie Kandlhofer, Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040
Focus On: Franco Andrés: Madly meeting logically in this hour.
11am-6pm
Galerie Kandlhofer, Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040
Focus On: Franco Andrés: Madly meeting logically in this hour.
11am-6pm
Galerie Kandlhofer, Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040
Madly meeting logically in this hour. is about magic and mating. The title references Section IV of Hart Crane's Voyages, which captures the complexity of love and its entanglement with time, embodiment, and the carnal.
Drawing on the seething psychological environments of Francis Bacon, the turbulent brushwork, intense color, and distorted forms of Chaïm Soutine, and the history of still-life butchery found in the work of Annibale Carracci and Rembrandt, Andrés brings this art historical foreground into conversation with the excruciating pressures of contemporary life, shaped by rapid technological change, wealth extraction, social isolation, and increasing precarity.
Underpinned by desire, transformation, and an understanding of the important role the shadow plays, Andrés's work invites an intimate psychological experience: an excavation sparked by loosened, slightly abstracted images rendered as if viewed only by candlelight. These images pull one into oneself and allow the inside to turn out.
Working with leather, literal skin, Andrés applies paint so that it seeps into the material rather than resting on the surface-a fusion of pigment with substrate, a bruise. A rib cage splayed open and light bursts.
The exhibition continues Andrés's interest in textures and surface exploration and marks his first return to working with porcelain since 2019. All the paintings carry a cool green tone, creating the feeling of otherworldly play-something alien, real, and hyper-real. Madly meeting logically in this hour. calls our attention to the wreathing of the divine, the human, and the shadow.
Text: DJ Hellerman
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