Uwe Kowski 2007
February 17, 2007- March 17, 2007
541 W 24th St
On 17 February 2007 the
Mary Boone Gallery, in co-operation with Galerie
EIGEN + ART, Leipzig/Berlin, will open at its Chelsea location an exhibition of
new paintings by UWE KOWSKI.
Uwe Kowski attended the famed Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in his
native Leipzig immediately prior to the reunification of Germany in 1990. Fol-
lowing that event, artists from the West began to avidly seek the school for
its academic traditions, giving rise (and international attention) to the “New
Leipzig School”. Kowski’s position on the edge of this social, political, and ar-
tistic sea change is reflected in his paintings: they bring together convention
and innovation, chaos and order, figuration and abstraction, objective surface
and painterly illusion.
The composition of each painting is loosely structured on a grid, with the most
literal of devices – words – used to order real space from an otherwise turbu-
lent field of lines and forms. Individual letters appear at once to be coalescing
from expressive brushstrokes or consumed by them. This ambiguity is height-
ened by an erratic use of color and patterning.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | | | Gallery | Mary Boone Gallery | | Address | 541 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States | | Phone | 212-752-2929 | | Fax | 212-752-3939 | | Hours | Tue-Sat 10-6 | |
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