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Crystal Mess

May 7, 2006- June 5, 2006

Dirk Skreber

Friedrich Petzel Gallery

537 W 22nd St

Friedrich Petzel Galley is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition by Düsseldorf-based artist Dirk Skreber. The exhibition will feature four large-scale paintings and one sculpture.

In his figurative paintings, Skreber uses heroic scale to express sublimity, whether it is found in the calamity of a flood or train crash or the awe- inspiring beauty of an atoll in the South Pacific. The paintings exude a cool detachment; this is especially evident in his landscapes, which use aerial perspective to heighten the pervasiveness of an uncanny silence.

Through his paintings Dirk Skreber challenges seemingly contradictory ideas in contemporary painting such as abstraction and figuration, color and line, beauty and catastrophe. The content is a vehicle for an exploration of formal issues.

In 2000, Dirk Skreber was awarded the inaugural young artist prize by the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the most prestigious prize for young artists in Germany. He has exhibited in museums all over Europe including the Kunstverein Freiburg and the Kunsthaus Zurich.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Friedrich Petzel Gallery Address 537 W 22nd St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-680-9467 Fax 212-680-9473 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6

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