June 1 - July 30, 2022
From Lawrence Markey:
“Lawrence Markey is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Helmut Federle Drawings 1970s, on view June through July, 2022.
This is Helmut Federle’s first solo exhibition at Lawrence Markey.
For our exhibition Helmut Federle selected 15 drawings, created between 1974–1979, and never before exhibited. Mediums include acrylic, pencil, ink and watercolor, on either paper or board. They measure close to standard 8 1/2 x 11 inch letter paper. These finished compositions recall images of mountain peaks, signs and landscapes.
Helmut Federle was born in Solothurn, Switzerland in 1944. He currently lives and works in Vienna and in Camaiore, Italy. In a career spanning decades, Federle has become known for large scale paintings that resist easy categorization. Federle’s works on paper represent a significant part of the artist’s oeuvre in like manner.
Excerpts from a 2022 essay entitled IMMEDIACY AND HELMUT FEDERLE by Richard Shiff, contributed to the exhibition:
“A generalization: in Federle’s art, sensation comprises thought, and thought comprises sensation. His drawings and paintings are thought experiments, the sensations of thinking. The drawings are inchoate ruminations, speculations, musings, projections. They are happenings, events. They reflect thinking conducted with materials and forms rather than words and concepts.”
“When Federle draws, the object is mind as much as matter or body. His thoughts on climbing are poetic, and his images express these sentiments better than would words. His meanings are not specific, he says, but vaguely psychological—matters of feeling. Such emotional conditions remain nonverbal and unnamed. Federle represents the ineffable.” “
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