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May 10, 2008- June 7, 2008
Reception: May 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rosa Loy
André Schlechtriem Contemporary
600 Washington StAndré Schlechtriem Contemporary is pleased to announce “Close To Me”, an exhibition of recent paintings by Leipzig artist Rosa Loy.
The title “Close to me“ is an epithet to Rosa Loy’s method of work, strategy and her philosophy. Loy’s representational paintings portray women often as twins or even Doppelgangers - reflections of her own, and of collective womanhood - as workers in their environment; working in their factories and in their fields, frequently seen during a break.
She identifies herself as a woman rooted in the German culture. The German gender specific word for female worker, “Arbeiterin”, is an essential part of her perceived identity. Born and raised in the former socialist GDR, she holds the belief that women and men are equal, although very different in their ways of understanding and shaping the world. Loy explores and researches what she describes as old and sometimes ancient “traditions of female knowledge” adding that they are not to found among the “Masculine Libraries”.
Loy’s landscapes are the dwelling and stage for her protagonists, referencing the nature she is surrounded with in Saxony as well as a color range that is dependant on the seasons changing light observed on her walks from house to studio. The animal creatures that populate her canvases give these paintings a mythological air at times as they guard and accompany her female pairs; architectural elements - sparsely featured in the paintings - are abstract compositional elements with which Loy begins the construction of her imagery. In her most recent work, these abstractions become more obvious and self-sustaining: abstract color fields, welcome the women as visitors on a stay. Rosa Loy’s work starts with the molecule, the smallest, the private part, in order to comment on the large-scale scenario.
“To paint and process tragedy, would be the easy way” says Loy, “as much as [it would be] from the art historian’s point of view.” “Much harder it is”, she argues, “to deal with the realm of ideas and ideals… things that never lose meaning, nor are they ever tragically blurred or blown-up.“
This is Rosa Loy’s second solo show in New York City; her first was “9 Wege” at David Zwirner Gallery in 2006. Loy has had recent solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany and the Städtische Museen Zwickau, Germany among others. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition On Sunday, May 11th, at 7pm, the Goethe Institute New York will present an artist talk with German artists and partners Rosa Loy and Neo Rauch for Show/ Tell 08. The two painters from the renowned New Leipzig School will meet the New York-based curator/writer couple Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk to discuss which challenges, opportunities and problems might arise as a result of living and working in the same field. What kind of inspiration and impulses does their partnership provide for both of them?
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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