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Lothar Hempel: People Like You Find it Easy
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Thu 4 Sep 2014 to Sat 4 Oct 2014
16 East 55th Street, NY 10022 Lothar Hempel: People Like You Find it Easy
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Artist: Lothar Hempel
Lothar Hempel: People Like You Find it Easy at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, from September 4 to October 4, 2014
Like a futuristic stage impresario, and seemingly without effort, Hempel choreographs figures and objects, matches disparate materials and techniques, and arranges geometric shapes, luminous colors, and sinuous organic lines into paintings and drawings of self-conscious aplomb.
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Lothar Hempel: People Like You Find it Easy at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, from September 4 to October 4, 2014
Like a futuristic stage impresario, and seemingly without effort, Hempel choreographs figures and objects, matches disparate materials and techniques, and arranges geometric shapes, luminous colors, and sinuous organic lines into paintings and drawings of self-conscious aplomb.
The artist applies acrylic, ink, oil, crayon, spray-paint, and pencil to primed, screen-printed aluminum sheets, often augmenting these panels with found objects such as coins or crystals, creating works that reveal a great sense of syncopated rhythm and temperament. Hempel’s work displays a kind of sprezzatura, an "aristocratic cool", that in the past has related to frank amorality or illicit pleasures, but may still be understood as a metaphor for the freedom and release sought from the weight of artistic tradition and critical expectations.
