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HERMANN GABLER: The surface between the Two
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Written by KALONSNET Editor   
Published: December 29 2009

 

"Untitled" (2009); acrylic paint on canvas, 50 x 50cm, courtesy of the artist and Sanagi Fine Arts

 

Hermann Gabler’s paintings are objects. But there is also an object painted onto the canvas, sometimes alongside a text. The text can be a sentence, a single word or a name. These elements stand each on its own right within the painting, yet experience finds that they still interact on both a concrete and a metaphorical level. This is what invites exploration. This is where the painting’s ambivalent surface turns out to be the body of interpretation.

 

In the process of sorting out and signifying single elements, which literally configure the painting we find ourselves intrigued to immediately put them back and forth in a significant order. Even given the realities arising from these changes, the work wants to carve or push a new space against and even outside of them. The reason why Hermann Gabler’s work wants to do this can only be taken proof within the works themselves.
- Hans-Jürgen Hafner

 

Hermann Gabler Biography
1958 Born in Fürth, Germany, lives in Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986-88 Rijksacademy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
since 1990 Professor Geritt Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
since 2002 Program committee, curator Kunstbunker, Nürnberg, Germany * The text provided by Sanagi Fine Arts.

 

Last Updated on December 22 2009
 

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