Rudolf de Crignis "Canvas and Paper"
Margarete Roeder Gallery
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Margarete Roeder Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Rudolf de Crignis entitled Canvas and Paper. The exhibition comprises selected paintings on canvas and paper from the 1990s.
De Crignis referred to his works both on paper and canvas equally as “paintings.”
Renowned for his rich, intense ultramarine paintings, this exhibition demonstrates the variety and depth of de Crignis’s practice by presenting previously not shown works, including a cream-colored diptych from 1996 with orange and pink edges to the upper and lower stretcher. Constructed from many layers of paint, often blue, over a gesso ground, the featured paintings on canvas make visible the process of their complex construction through the traces of variously colored layers visible at the edges and the meticulously calibrated depths of the frontal planes. Seen in artificial or daylight, with direct or reflected light, in the morning or late afternoon, the paintings only gradually reveal themselves, responsive to the architecture and light in which they are displayed. The smaller works on paper are executed in pencil, gouache, or watercolor; the partially erased graphite lines create a slight vibration, an optical pulse, akin to the fine brushwork in the canvas works.
De Crignis (b. 1948, Winterthur, Switzerland; d. 2006, New York) exhibited widely in galleries in the United States and Europe from the 1980s onwards. Notable
recent solo museum exhibitions include Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich and the Swiss National Library, Bern. A presentation of the works drawn from the museum’s collection is periodically installed at Kolumba, Cologne.
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Schedule
from September 16, 2010 to October 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-16 from 18:00 to 20:00