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Email Page10000 Jahre
January 17, 2008- February 16, 2008
Reception: January 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Julius Grünewald
Max Lang
229 10th AveMax Lang and Galerie Haas & Fuchs announce the opening of Julius Grünewald: 10000 Jahre, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Thirteen richly decorated interiors are the subject of this new body of work. They elaborate upon a motif Grünewald has been investigating most of his career – his childhood home in the historic Southwestern German city of Worms. The rooms are not straightforward depictions; rather, the artist’s memory reigns supreme. He creates paradoxical environments where the differences between reality and his pictorial translations thereof reveal themselves only after careful scrutiny.
In these atmospheric and moody canvases, Grünewald references the 19th century in his technique, rich palette, and subject matter. Yet his paintings are thoroughly modern, employing simple titles like “Esszimmer” and “Wohnzimmer” or “Dining Room” and “Living Room.” These monumental paintings transcend time and place and are certainly not merely dining rooms or living rooms; instead, they are grand memento moris of these spaces. In Bücherregal V, for example, a freely painted bookcase dissolves into white canvas, moving from figuration to abstraction in the same composition. And in Untitled (Kronleuchter), his impasto-laden Rococo chandelier emits an eerie light that would likely fill an entire room but here fills the entire canvas. Abendessen an Weihnachten presents the artist’s family gathered around a dining room table partaking in Christmas dinner; however, Grünewald distorts the figures beyond recognition in a Symbolist manner akin to Munch.
Julius Grünewald was born in Worms in 1965. He studied painting at the prestigious Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe under the tutelage of Per Kirkeby, whose painterly solutions to formal problems greatly influenced his work. The artist now lives between Berlin and Westohofen.
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