Martin C. Herbst "Ariodante"
Mike Weiss Gallery
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Mike Weiss Gallery announces Ariodante, an exhibition featuring a procession of new works by Austrian artist Martin C. Herbst. Working on polished stainless steel and aluminum, Herbst seeks to emphasize the ideal of the Renaissance; it is an analysis made by an artist of the twenty first century who has, through his predecessors, earned the right to play freely with the idea. It is clear that painting is no longer contained within precise boundaries, in a paradise, reflecting an ideal and dramatic reality. It is Martin Herbst’s conviction that there has been a shift so dramatic that regression in any way is impossible. We are left only with the option to move forward and draw from the past what we can while delving into fascinating combinations of ideas that are at once familiar, yet take a second and third glance to grasp. It is also clear that the artist is in a state of lamentation that beauty itself, at that time, was restricted in many ways, there was no pleasure taken from distortion or playfulness within established conventions.
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from January 15, 2009 to February 21, 2009