Hannes Schmid "Cowboy"
Edwynn Houk Gallery
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Hannes Schmid’s "Cowboys" have stealthily entered our consciousness via a steady flow of gorgeous advertisement imagery and within the art market, via the appropriated cowboys of Richard Prince. In the photographs on display in this exhibition, selected by the artist from his personal archive, Schmid grasped the scenery of the American West in a refined pictorial way and re-imagined the cowboy, who had already been ennobled to be the mythical icon in America, by giving him a contemporary and tangible appearance. Drawing from an extensive knowledge as artist and photographer, Schmid dramatically reduced the vocabulary of the image to essentials and emphasized the brilliance of the prints. In addition, he has been expanding his Cowboys from just photography, reclaiming and reworking them into oil paintings and other media.
[Image: Hannes Schmid "Cowboy #007" (2000)]
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Schedule
from September 22, 2011 to October 29, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-22 from 18:00 to 20:00