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PAINTING
BY HERMANN LEDERLE
BY HERMANN LEDERLE
ADAPTATION
SEPTEMBER 2015
Reminiscent of partially open Levelor blinds, a network of dense and narrow vertical bands sweep across the canvas. There’s more weight at the center; this makes the surface quiver and shimmer, like water burbling over an outcropping of coral just beneath the surface of a roiling sea. Without fully revealing it, the piece suggests an expanse of pictorial depth. It accommodates something that is turbulent and veiled, expressionistic and controlled.
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ADAPTATION DREAM 2015
The piece began with marks on the canvas. His signature, in the lower corner; Words near the edge, vertically arrayed. Given the piece’s up and down rhythm, it invites a comparison. Those vertical bands consist of the vivid and expressionistic decades-old paintings that Lederle has painstakingly hand-cut and then collaged onto the canvas, leaving just enough space so that the original marks show through as interstices of the canvas. Punctuated with a stop and go rhythm, the work reigns in the artist’s prior spontaneous flourishes. Each scrimmed line brims with its own gravity. Overall it packs a powerful existential wallop.
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ARTHEA GALLERY MANNHEIM GERMANY 2015