Haessle "New works: Blue"
Kips Gallery
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Haessle’s new series of oil paintings on canvas are reaching back to works he did twenty five years ago, in the mid to late eighties.
Titled Blue, they all present a lush surface of a deep ultramarine blue inscribed with small areas of black brush strokes, who, in turn are more or less heavily “graphitized” with scintillating colors directly applied with the tube.
Haessle explains, that, like in the eighties, he mixes himself the colors hues with different mediums and then fill them up in empty tubes. The result painted20surface gives his colors a very unusual sheen and richness, which makes the small colors touch sparkle like some jewelries against the rich blue surface. Contrary to his works of the eighties where most often the entire surface of the canvas was marked, these new works present a calligraphic kind of “writing”, Japanese-like signatures fund on
Ukioye prints (He is an avid collectors of 19th century Japanese woodblock prints) or Chinese sumi brush works. The results are paintings with a freshness and clarity of means that are the most seductive as well as original work s that Haessle produced to date.
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from March 03, 2009 to April 01, 2009