Hermann Lederle - PAINTING 2020-22

A BREAKAWAY

'BANKS' 2022

A classical structure infused with shamming, shocking breakaway elements, exploring the freestyle composition of a modern scape.

FLOATING COLOR GUSH

'LOOK LOOK' 2022

This painting is built up upon a rich black background and white chalk like lines, followed by layers of floating blots upon blots dipping with color.

BLOOM OF DARKNESS

'FALSETTO' 2022

GLOW LACED

'ÉLYSÉE' 2022

CLASSICS REVIVAL

'THE FALL' 2022

A sweep of white light cascading down the canvas and breaking off into colors bouncing back up contained in a frame inside a gothical structure from another time.

UNSHACKLED SHAPING

'THE WALL' 2022

A symbolic meta structure of playful arranged hyper shapes to lure the viewer into experiencing paint blots as real objects.

DEFYING A GENRE

'CATHEDRAL' 2021

A work composed by Rota Pixel blots - a homage to magnificent structures created over centuries.

THE QUARRY

THE 'QUARRY' -- imagine a slice cut from the earth and staged under the sunlight in our present day world, leaving one free to marvel or read

TRIGGER OF TRANSITION

B L A C K S T A R 2021

There's a continuum in 'ADAPTATION' - these reassembled stripes, forever expanding like a black star.

PAINT SCAPES +

This chapter in Hermann Lederle's long-established imbroglio of intricate and perplexing state of 'affaires d'art', comes in the form 'SCAPES' - paint-scapes versus landscapes

BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES

... between the paint and its intended object. 'INTO THE WILD', is proposing to stage the passage from a merely observational parading of its subject into a purely artistic matter.

NO LIMITS

'END OF SUMMER' , through its stripes of linen canvas assembled onto the canvas panels, revokes and reveals with playful intend a transformation of PIXEL Impressionism.

THE SALON

'ROSEBUDS' , 'FLIRTING' and 'FANFARE' propose a merge of radically metamorphing opposite style elements into a new form.

THE WORKS

BANKS
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 3 panels, 72 by 144 inches (183x366cm), 2022

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LOOK LOOK
oil on canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2022

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FALSETTO
oil on canvas, 72 by 60 inches (183x152cm), 2022

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ÉLYSÉE
oil on canvas, 72 by 60 inches (183x152cm), 2022

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THE FALL
oil on canvas, 72 by 60 inches (183x152cm), 2022
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REEDS
oil on canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2022

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THE WALL
oil on canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2022
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CATHEDRAL
oil on canvas, 3 panels, 60 by 120 inches (152x305cm), 2021

Amidst all the creative process, stylistic elements emerge in subtle steps quite imperceptible, imprinting forms of a gothic pattern. Apparently this work not just embodies the use of ROTA PIXEL, it embellishes and raises the potential of the blots to new heights and dimensions.

Arts District Los Angeles
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QUARRY
oil on canvas, 3 panels, 60 by 120 inches (152x305cm), 2021
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This three panel painting is a continuation of the latest landscape versus paint-scape exploration by Lederle. It builds upon the fundamentals of the PIXEL series, but with a distinct dot structure and its colors separated into CMYK - similar to a crude inkjet printer. The entire surface appears viewed through a prism, splitting the light along bands of primary hues and tones. Imagine a slice cut from the earth and staged under the sunlight in our present day world, leaving one free to marvel or read.
It tempts to coach the spectator along a path to unearth, uncover long lost history ions ago.
This new technique of semi transparent paint blots marks a beginning of what might be called the ROTA PIXEL painting.
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BLACKSTAR
oil on linen stripes over canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2021

Arts District Los Angeles
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END OF SUMMER
oil on linen stripes over canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2020

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INTO THE WILD
oil on canvas, 3 panels, 60 by 120 inches (152x305cm), 2020
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'INTO THE WILD', inspired by the age-old desire of exploration and conquest, is proposing to stage such passage from a merely observational parading of its subject into a purely artistic matter. In a sense, the work tries to let the paint itself thrust the viewer onto mode/style mimicking the traipsing.

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INTO THE LAKE
oil on canvas, 3 panels, 60 by 120 inches (152x305cm), 2020
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This work by Lederle, ‘INTO THE LAKE’ wants to capture the essence of this actual landscape in symbolic abstraction. J.M.W. Turner was drawn to this location nearly 180 years earlier and produced one of his great works, ‘THE BLUE RIGI’, in 1842.

Lederle’s painting is multifunctional: it is a mood, an atmospheric composition of nature in the abstract as much as it is a homage to Turner’s painting at the same location. Cold wax mixed generously into the oil paint, creates a transparency and light effect surrounding the solid fields of shimmering bluish rock. It is also an attempt by the artist to connect elements from the PIXEL series to his new works.

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ROSEBUDS
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 38 by 50 inches (96x127cm), 2021
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It might be of innate interest to learn, how this painting’s early stage developed and eventually ended up radically metamorphing opposite style elements, with the result of moving Lederle’s work towards a whole new direction. This appropriation of unrestrained analogues may not surprise, one only needs to look at his previous painting series ‘ADAPTATION’. As contrary as the fan-shaped color fields in the first stage vanish under the ubiquitous ROTA PIXEL blots, they hold their own in the balance. And a new visual is born.

FANFARE
(INTO THE ROUGH)
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 38 by 50 inches (96x127cm), 2021

FLIRTING
(INTO THE UNTAMED)
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 38 by 50 inches (96x127cm), 2021
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WORKS. CODA

AMBROSIAL
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 20 by 20 inches (152x274cm), 2021

IMMERSION
oil on canvas, 20 by 20 inches (152x274cm), 2021

IN FLUX

SERENADING OILS
oil/acrylic on canvas, 3 panels, 60 by 108 inches (152x274cm), 2020
Updated JUNE 2020

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INTO THE HILLS
oil and gold leaf on canvas, 38 by 50 inches (96x127cm), 2020
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'INTO THE HILLS' by Lederle is a work that calls for an expression of pure color, abstract form, and the seductive materiality of paint. We are witness to the process of incremental breakthroughs that expand the language of abstraction.
The shapes and strokes do not refer to what’s seen in nature, but rather the paint is the subject.

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THE PROCESS OBSERVED

FACTORY ART STUDIO

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