Thomas Eggerer "The Rules of the Fence"
Petzel Gallery
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Thomas Eggerer's new paintings feature figures in ambivalent spaces that are both expansive and limiting. The architectural elements in these works such as a fence in "Fence Romance" or the modernist frame in "Friday's Child" offer shelter and definition, and are nonetheless confining. A feeling of exposure and uncertainty is enhanced by the placement of the figures on slanted angles as in "Fence Romance" and even further by the orchestration of glances: the viewers' glances as well as a regime of glances within the paintings themselves. The ambivalence of Eggerer's spatial constructions provides a context for a time frame - holding and releasing, breathing in and out, before and after.
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from May 08, 2010 to July 02, 2010