Lehmann
Maupin Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in New
York of Christian Hellmich. The exhibition title, "Arrangement," is a
term borrowed from music and suggests an adaptation or combination.
Hellmich
creates space on canvas by placing several objects and structures
together, without regard for cohesion. Hellmich's works are simply
exteriors or interiors of places that are anonymous and void of human
presence. These places are not known or imagined; they are instead
arrangements of his architectural perceptions.
The only
narrative that exists in Hellmich's pictures is the story of painting
itself. At times he may offer the viewer a door or entryway to his
paintings, withholding a glimpse of what lies beyond. For all of his
rigorous engagement with the principles of texture, form and geometry,
Hellmich's paintings are fundamentally an exercise in taxonomy and
architectonics. As Mark Gisbourne writes in the exhibition catalogue
for Arrangement, "That the paintings are figurative is not, in fact,
the most relevant of issues. That they are deliberately configurative
seems to be more to the point."
"Arrangement" is accompanied by a 32-page exhibition catalogue of the same title.
Christian
Hellmich was born in 1977 in Düsseldorf, Germany and studied
Communication Design with an emphasis on free diagramming/painting at
the University of Essen. Hellmich's work has been included in numerous
group exhibitions and was featured in Lehmann Maupin's 2005 Summer
Show, Fresh Paint. He lives and works in Köln, Germany.
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