Patrick Neu Exhibition
Gallery KUMUKUMU
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Patrick Neu exhibits three groups of drawings in various mediums, including watercolors of irises, burned paper drawings on charred placemats, and delicate soot on crystal “drawings,” replicating in miniature the religious iconography of Renaissance and pre-Renaissance paintings. The soot he uses comes from candle smoke. In all the pieces, Neu manifests a preoccupation with fragility, transience, and decay, both in the material itself and the subject matter depicted. He has described irises as “beautiful, strong, fragile, sick, malicious, and fatal.” Each spring, he ritualistically cuts the flower off the stem before doing the watercolors. As Neu portrays them, they become abstract and sexual, their petals like folds of skin. The technical agility of the work is also notable; Neu’s work treats delicacy and obsession both materially and metaphorically. Although ostensibly concerning himself with the ephemeral, the artist, through the beauty of each piece, evinces a celebratory state of rebirth.
[Image: Patrick Neu "Iris 2" (2007) Watercolor on paper 37,5 X 28,5cm]
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Schedule
from March 27, 2009 to May 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-27 from 18:00 to 20:00