NYAB Event - Anton Henning "Ferien vom Du!/Abstract Masterpaintings"

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At Zach Feuer Gallery
Media: Painting, Video installation

Henning's work, in its scope and variety, can be interpreted as a series of related riddles. The work's contradictions, oppositions and discrepancies reveal both the absurdist and traditional veins in his work. Henning is anti-unconventional in his examination of traditional art genres (including portrait, landscape, nude and still life, in which he often blurs the boundaries between the genres) and his work frequently includes mixing and sampling the work of other artists, with humor and self-awareness that does not conform to contemporary expectations or fashions.

Playing upon ideas of antidote, antonym and antipode, Henning's work is suffused in wit and irony, although not the one-line irony often found in contemporary art. "My irony is romantic" states Henning. It is a kind of romantic irony filled with a literary self-consciousness in which the artist signals his freedom from the limits of a given work by "puncturing its fictional illusion and exposing its process of composition as a matter of authorial whim."

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