NYAB Event - Volker Hueller Exhibition

Volker Hueller Exhibition

Eleven Rivington

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Eleven Rivington and Salon 94 present Berlin-based German artist Volker Hueller in a 2-venue exhibition, curated by Anna-Catharina
Gebbers and organized by Augusto Arbizo. An installation with hand-painted etchings and objects will turn Eleven Rivington into an intimate cabinet. Large-scale painterly collages in metallic shades of silver, paintings and objects will create a heightened atmosphere at Salon 94.

The two venues emphasize different bodies of work, but subtle correlations will link both parts of the exhibition and unfold Volker Hueller‘s distinct vocabulary: his work brings together aspects of abstraction, figuration, and decoration towards a painterly practice that encompasses printmaking, painting, collage and sculpture. Hueller’s series of etchings are individually colored with watercolor and shellac, making each sheet jewel-like and unique. The large collages, up to seven-by-nine feet in dimension, consist of disparately textured materials from faux fur to patterned leather, which are affixed onto canvas, and then painted in silver oil and lacquer. Hueller’s three-dimensional objects extend painting beyond
the flat surface as painted vases or handmade sculptural heads in porcelain.

Though often inspired by literary or philosophical texts as well as personal experiences, Hueller’s motifs – which include skulls, birds, horses, and androgynous figures set amidst gardens and forests - are rooted in collective visual memory. While deeply rooted in scenes and images, Hueller pushes his new work to varying degrees of abstraction: particular forms become layered and intertwined, arriving at compositions filled with movement and mystery. The abstract and geometric patchwork qualities of Hueller’s collages are dense; fractured and broken planes lend a sense of rhythm and unity to variegated elements. His figures and other representational forms - with references from Lucas Cranach to Klimt, Klee, and Picasso, among others - are brought into the realm of the ornamental while abstraction becomes an harmonizing and balancing element.

Volker Hueller was born 1976 in Forchheim, Germany. He studied under
painter Norbert Schwontkowski at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg and
currently lives and works in Berlin.

[Image: Volker Hueller "Schweigen (Silence)" (2009) etching, watercolor, shellac on paper 39 x 29 cm]