NYAB Event - Michael Krebber Exhibition

Michael Krebber Exhibition

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At Greene Naftali Gallery
Media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation

Greene Naftali announces Michael Krebber's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Since the late-eighties, Krebber has slowly gained recognition for his casual and penetrating artistic gestures. Always incorporating in some way the guise of "the painter," Krebber enacts painting as only being possible within the highly coded context of contemporary art, the result being a seemingly awkward marriage of semi-abstract painting with the strategies of post-conceptual art like those of Broodthaers, Asher, Lawler, et al. Yet a question lingers whether Krebber uses this "gloss" of bygone critique simply as a trick--leftover ideas proposed but then immediately (or sooner) vacated. False bottoms, dead ends and illusions are everywhere immanent.

In this exhibition, Krebber will exhibit a new suite of secondhand windsurfing boards split into extended wall reliefs, a production motif also currently on display in his solo exhibition, "Puberty in Teaching," at the Koelnischer Kunstverein. The simple gesture of inserting equal measures of blank space into the matrix of these readymade objects underscores Krebbers gestural spareness and performs a simple act of alienating these boards into the realm of non-use and art. This conceptual vacancy can also unlock myriad artistic allusions (from Donald Judd to Damien Hirst to eighties Neo-Geo) and further enacts the artists project of staging himself within the gaps of artistic identity.