Axel Geis Exhibition
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces an exhibition of new oil paintings by Berlin-based painter Axel Geis. The exhibition will be the artist’s first solo show in the United States.
Geis’s paintings feature figures set in ambiguous locations and uncertain time periods. Although he often uses images from films as points of departure, the artist pulls subjects from their specific contexts and sets them against seemingly unfinished backdrops. The figures appear to float on the picture plane amid visible brushstrokes in muted or earthy tones. While engaging with masters such as El Greco, Velázquez, Goya and Manet, the artist nonetheless brings a freshness to the genre of history painting and, above all, makes his own contemporary commentary.
[Image: Axel Geis "Frau nach links" (2008) Oil on canvas, 118 by 76in.]
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Schedule
from October 17, 2008 to November 22, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-10-17 from 18:00 to 20:00