Helen Berggruen “The Open Window”
Fischbach Gallery
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In The Open Window: Objects, Rooms & Landscapes, Berggruen employs the window to open a dialogue between human dwellings and those elements of the natural world that surround them. “The through line in my work is a concern for rhythm, the duration of sounds and silences, harmony and melodic motion. Recurring pulses and syncopation are the forces underlying the composition, the color, and the brush strokes which give life to the hills and trees, the winding roads, the chairs and tables, the objects near a window.” Helen Berggruen 2013
“This current exhibition of paintings leads us into particular worlds of nature and things: treetops, clouds, pathways dance across the surface of the canvas; they have taken along into their rhythm the household objects- flowers, vase, telephone, accordion. Out in the field, the stout, orange motorized plow intertwines the archaic element of field-labor with a kind of lightness of being. The exhilarating spirit of the painter enlivens it all. And further: the paintings open up what we see in the world. They invite us to explore the sound of the landscape, to hear the song inside all things.” Friedhelm Krey 2013, translated from the German Catalog Essay “Das Lied in Den Dingen” by William Sterling
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Schedule
from April 25, 2013 to May 25, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-04-25 from 17:00 to 19:00