Arnold Helbling "Building C"
Von Lintel Gallery
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In his latest body of work, Arnold Helbling takes his signature style of deconstructive, post-apocalyptic space and turns it on its head. The work is now additive. Helbling systematically builds information, not side-by-side or step-by-step, but somehow simultaneously, shifting from one reality to another, before taking it away, blocking it out with clouds of color or rigid squares of paint and paper. Time and space fade in and out and planes bleed into one another, building layers that are locked in space with no clear sense of chronology or vantage point.
Helbling’s subject matter remains the same: vast, ecstatically colorful and borderline hallucinatory environments constructed from a mix of abstract and recognizable images. Urban housing units and cityscapes hover in midair at varying stages of clarity and distortion, while abstract shapes and gestures, lines of different length, width and focus go whizzing by at varying depths and speeds. Now, however, the actual Xerox copy of a building, clipped from a newspaper, is physically glued to the painting’s canvas; sharp, crisp lines of paper are contrasted with rough, uneven edges of disassembled plastic bags stretched across the surface.
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from October 16, 2008 to November 15, 2008